Let’s start with an encouraging statistic: Despite years of demoralizing reports on sweeping media layoffs, nearly 300 new digital local news organizations have launched since 2016. That number, which comes from a 2021 study by Project … Read more
In November 2022, I saw my former home in Kyiv in flames on live TV following a Russian missile attack. Moscow was targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine to cause blackouts, often by firing up to 100 missiles at once to … Read more
Mining public records can be tedious work — especially more than 40 million of them. But as the findings finally came into focus, not even the just-the-facts questions of their veteran investigative editors could dampen the excitement of the young … Read more
When I was starting in journalism in 1999, the movie “The Insider” came out, chronicling the way 60 Minutes handled the story of a tobacco executive who blew the whistle on the industry. To a young reporter, Lowell Bergman, the … Read more
Alissa Quart, NF ’10, on the reporting behind her book “Bootstrapped” The dark inspiration for “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream” came from the news but also from my lived experience. I direct the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a … Read more
Chong-ae Lee, NF ’13, on the value of taking a step back and looking at the big picture Nearly two decades ago, I received a phone call from the news innovation editor in my newsroom, asking if I was interested in … Read more
In my quarter-century as a journalist, I’ve seen many media business models come and go. Each new idea brought with it the hope that this new business structure — or funder or technological development — would be the thing to … Read more
A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it. This was true even before Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform a year ago. But the parade of calamities since — cutting back … Read more
Marshall Ganz has a storied history in community organizing. After matriculating to Harvard College in 1960, he left after his junior year to volunteer with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project and then later joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as … Read more
