Emma Gray and Claire Fallon were two rare millennial journalists who had worked for the same digital media organization for a decade.By 2021, Gray was a senior women’s reporter and Fallon was a culture writer, both at HuffPost. Together,...
The journalism industry is letting a vital resource wither on the vine.The News Leaders Association has — through its precursor, the American Society of News Editors — conducted an annual diversity survey since 1978. The resulting report is a...
Weather has long been a staple of local TV news. But as climate change makes extreme weather events like droughts, blizzards, and fires more frequent and severe, weather is becoming an even bigger part of people’s daily lives —...
Welcome to another edition of RQ1! For those who are new, we are Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis — two former journalists turned academics, now teaching and researching at Washington and Lee University (Mark) and the University of Oregon (Seth).In trying to...
You may find the word "data" in the term "data journalism" redundant. After all, newsmaking of any kind, even the tacky, propaganda-driven type, has always relied heavily on data. Earlier, on-set journalists, reporters and data collection teams would scramble...
After a two-year break, the International Journalism Festival was back in Perugia. Journalists from all over the world discussed pressing issues facing the news industry such as the rise of hybrid newsrooms, reader revenue models, the coverage of the...
Last week I got to spend some virtual time with students at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU in Georgia. The young journalists I spoke with were especially keen on getting advice about pitching freelance stories to editors, which interested...
The journalism conference circuit is active again, and with it, so are some of the debates about the future of local journalism. At last week’s International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, I moderated a panel titled, “Recreating the local...
I KNOW, I KNOW: a second successive CJR newsletter about Twitter. After writing yesterday about Elon Musk’s surprise entanglement with Twitter, the corporate entity, I didn’t expect to be writing today about Twitter, the bane of our existence (and...
The Washington Post is creating a wellness department staffed with almost 20 journalists.The newspaper said the new section will try to relate conventional science reporting to readers’ everyday concerns and that they see it as “essential for our current and...
