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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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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Jennie Dear
- Jun 1, 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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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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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 4, 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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