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Thinking about the Long Now
Jennie Dear
  • Dec 1, 2015
  • 4 min

Thinking about the Long Now

The Interval, a quirky bar/library/meeting room, is tucked discreetly between other storefronts on the northernmost pier in San Francisco....
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Why the latest Nobel Prize in literature matters to journalists
Jennie Dear
  • Nov 1, 2015
  • 5 min

Why the latest Nobel Prize in literature matters to journalists

​ Try looking closely at the work of Svetlana Alexievich, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. After reading just a...
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Jennie Dear
  • Oct 8, 2015
  • 4 min

Partisan frames don’t fit Supreme Court and Pope Francis stories

As the Supreme Court starts a new session, journalists have been asking whether its rulings will reflect a Republican or Democratic...
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Jennie Dear
  • Aug 4, 2015
  • 6 min

Good intentions are not enough: Key lessons for journalists from Rolling Stone’s botched campus rap

The fallout from Rolling Stone’s story about campus rape continued this past week: Just a few hours after three former University of...
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Jennie Dear
  • Jul 3, 2015
  • 4 min

When Google searches are unfair, journalists can take up the slack

A recent study says that Google’s universal search harms users—and that claim has implications for journalists. While the study was...
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Hubble and a sense of wonder
Jennie Dear
  • Jun 2, 2015
  • 4 min

Hubble and a sense of wonder

Note the sense of awe in this CNN.com news lead about the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope: It’s up there right now—flying...
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A narrative of the revolution
Jennie Dear
  • May 1, 2015
  • 4 min

A narrative of the revolution

In 2004, the Project for Excellence in Journalism quietly launched a new annual investigation: an in-depth look at what was happening to...
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scottf9
  • Mar 21, 2015
  • 2 min

Graphic Photos

The prosecutors in the trial of the man who opened fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in late 2012 are asking the judge to grant...
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scottf9
  • Mar 21, 2015
  • 4 min

Serial: A key to better storytelling?

"What is a story in its purest form?” asks Ira Glass, the host and executive producer of “This American Life.” We’ll get to one possible...
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Striving for a new kind of balance
scottf9
  • Feb 1, 2015
  • 3 min

Striving for a new kind of balance

Too much exposure to negative news has been linked to depression and anxiety: For instance, a 2014 survey of 2,500 Americans found that...
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scottf9
  • Nov 20, 2014
  • 3 min

In an era of horse-race election coverage, another option

Two days before the recent mid-term elections, a small Colorado daily ran an election story notable for what it was not: It was not...
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scottf9
  • Sep 5, 2014
  • 1 min

Blurring the line between news and advertising

The line between news and advertising continues to blur, including at major news outlets like Time magazine, The Atlantic and The New...
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scottf9
  • Jun 22, 2014
  • 2 min

Accuracy and Social Media

What we’ve found most intriguing lately about the intersection between journalism and social media is the way it can serve as a microcosm...
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