Vice Media said it was restructuring its global news operation, including shutting down its Vice News Tonight broadcast, as the embattled media company looks to sell itself. The company expects to cut more than 100 jobs as part of the...
Newsletters have become an important entry point for media startups. However, a single channel is probably not enough for publishing success and Digiday has been speaking to a collection of newsletter publishers that are planning to expand beyond the inbox. The...
It took seven hours before she gave me the phrase “survivor’s guilt” to describe what I felt. She, a former war correspondent who covered the Iraq War for more than a decade. Me, a young journalist working for a...
When journalists — especially those who live in towns and cities — cover rural communities, they have specific challenges to navigate. As with any community that is new to them, they need to understand some cultural norms and pitfalls....
The 2022 podcast “Will Be Wild” (from Pineapple Street Studios/Wondery/Amazon Music) is a powerful, deeply reported eight-part series about the people who saw the U.S. Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021, coming — both those who tried to stop it,...
We find ourselves in a perilous moment. Democracy is under withering assault. Technological advances have empowered propagandists to profit through discontent and disinformation. A coordinated, fifty-year campaign waged by one of our major political parties to denigrate the media...
“I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting,” war correspondent Tim Mak writes in his first Substack newsletter. “This time, alone.”Mak says he was laid off from his job as an investigative correspondent when it cut its...
Thousands of journalists descended on Perugia, Italy, for the 2023 International Journalism Festival, to discuss everything from democracy to technology, revenue, audience engagement and the future of journalism. Here’s an overview of five themes from a range of panels.1....
One of the tragic realities and outrages of life in America has become the steady drumbeat of gun deaths. The news takes on a Gatling-gun pace — and that reference is intentional. We are all being assaulted by a...
It was a huge honour to speak at this year’s International Festival of Journalism in Perugia, and to be amongst so many leading lights in the profession. From the impact of AI on journalism to how we must combat...
