For many local newsrooms across the country, it took a global pandemic to demonstrate how quickly and successfully newsroom leaders could restructure their coverage to [...]
Although not always the originator of misinformation, social media communities are an amplifier for conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns — and they’re also victims of [...]
The critical issue of diversity in local newsrooms and in community coverage was never more apparent than during the national racial reckoning of 2020. Now [...]
News organizations often get an “audience bump” during major breaking news, but the COVID-19 pandemic offered something unique: a prolonged news event that had readers [...]
More than a year after the global pandemic became official, local journalism still grapples with the fallout — not only from the coronavirus but also [...]
For many people, the knee-jerk reaction to shedding work is immediately to find other stuff (more meaningful stuff!) to replace it with. That’s not really [...]
It’s not just journalists who are overwhelmed with information. Audiences are too. People are consuming media all day long, in one form or another. So [...]
It’s surprisingly difficult for organizations of any kind to stop doing things. And the more complex the thing (or the organization), the harder it can [...]
Editor’s note, 2024: Want to learn how API’s Emily Ristow trains news organizations on Stop Doing, and how outlets have successfully implemented this practice into [...]
Once a news organization identifies something as false, the question becomes how to cover it, if at all. The instinct of most news people when [...]