On the morning of Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, Kati Kokal was trying to keep up with news about the first week of school in her role as an education reporter at The Palm Beach Post. About two hours into...
Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia.Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)...
Hope everyone is well rested after the holiday weekend. Today, I have a Q&A with two of the founders behind Good Tape, a new biannual print magazine that is aiming to tell the untold stories within the podcast industry....
There’s been a recent flurry of papers and columns on objectivity. I’ve read them all. While there is clearly a generational shift underway in the standards of American journalism, is there really a debate?Marty Baron, former Washington Post editor,...
When The Philadelphia Inquirer launched an election night widget earlier this month, they were fairly confident it would work smoothly.After all, they’d already road tested a version on another critically important day for the city: the Super Bowl. (The...
Coming back from the INMA World Congress of News Media it’s a pleasure to sort back through more than ten pages of notes and distil some of the learnings we gathered.A big theme was obviously generative AI, but aside...
The creation of a “narrative culture” via podcasts in the UK is changing journalism, according to editors who spoke at The Podcast Show 2023 in London.Themes at The Podcast Show on Wednesday last week included the ways that journalism...
La ciudad sumergida (The submerged city), an investigation produced by Uruguayan science and technology news site Amenaza Roboto, is one of the winners of this year’s Sigma Awards for data journalism. The project uses maps of the country’s capital,...
Inside the Financial Times newsroom this winter, one of its star investigative reporters, Madison Marriage, had a potentially explosive scoop involving another newspaper.A prominent left-wing columnist, Nick Cohen, had resigned from Guardian News & Media, and Ms. Marriage had...
Political journalism is in crisis. Over the past few months, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Vice and a number of other outlets that specialize in political news have substantially cut staffing and coverage. Even CNN and The Post have laid off...
