Ida B. Wells Deadline Less Than a Month Away
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Journalism
Remembering Rita Henley Jensen, founder of Women’s eNews
Rita Henley Jensen, founder of the feminist website Women’s eNews, died on Wednesday. Feminist media lost a...
Newsrooms and Unionization
In 1978, about 20 percent of workers in the newspaper industry were unionized. Howard Stanger, a historian...
Why I Crowdfunded My Own Investigative Journalism Project
As anyone can tell you, it's hard out there for a journalist. With so much media moving...
How Digital Media Affects Investigative Reporters Worldwide
By the end of this year, more than 3 billion of the world's 7.2 billion people will...
Report Asks, ‘Who Gets a Press Pass?’
One out of every five journalists who applied for media credentials from federal, state, local, and private...
Corchado’s Hour Of Darkness
The rains once swept across the desert sky of his childhood home in Durango, they nourished the...
A New Consensus on the Future of News
Just a couple of years ago, although it feels like a lot longer, the media world was...
Ezra Klein and the Early-Mover Disadvantage
The parade of departures of high-profile journalism talent from big newspapers, of which Ezra Klein's is the...
Newspapers Continue Demonstrating Indispensability
"85 percent of professionally reported accountability news comes from newspapers, but I have heard guesses from credible...
Bloomberg News at a Crossroads
Just a few months ago, Bloomberg News was faced with a potential crisis after Wall Street clients...
Community Radio Heavily Impacted by FSRN’s Last Broadcast
The independent daily news program, Free Speech Radio News (FSRN), is off the air this week after...
Sexism in Media: Not Just an ‘Atmosphere’
It was with disgust and not a little despair that I watched this week as The New...
Investigative Reporting’s Gender Problem
Thanks to Sheila Coronel for her provocative post earlier this week, "Is Investigative Reporting Dominated by Men?"...
Local Investigative Journalism Watch
In the wake of the economic crisis, local investigative journalism outlets are filling a gap left by...
Acclimatizing to a new New York Times
Last week we learned that the New York Times was closing down its environment desk. We were...
Best Investigative Reporting on US Guns You Might Have Missed
As Congress and the White House prepare to battle over gun control, we rounded up some of...
So, You Think You Can Freelance?
On December 31, 2012 the final print edition of Newsweek went to the newsstands. Splashed across the...
A “Revelatory” Reporter Reveals…
Nieman Reports — the quarterly magazine for Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism and a website we...
The Prospect’s Prospects
This Monday, news broke that if the independent, Washington-based American Prospectdoesn't raise $500,000 by the end of...