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    How to stop doing so many stories

    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 [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    A simple framework for deciding what to stop doing

    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 [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    How newsrooms can do less work – but have more impact

    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 [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    The Sound of Silence: Strategic Amplification

    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 [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    A Sea of Falsehoods

    The public today must navigate a news ecosystem contaminated with false information. Some of it is spread without malicious intent, which is generally called misinformation. [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    ‘Enemy of the People’

    In his more than two decades in journalism, Joel Christopher had never seen anything like it. When he arrived at the Louisville Courier Journal as [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    Getting it right: Strategies for truth-telling in a time of misinformation and polarization

    There was a time when being a journalist meant pursuing a story by reporting the available information from as many sources as possible, writing the [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    Contending with Polarized Audiences

    Most news organizations aspire to a goal of delivering quality information that can promote healthy dialogue among members of their communities. Some succeed better than [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    Conclusion: A Challenge for Challenging Times

    Each of the challenges addressed in this report – misinformation, attempts to manipulate journalists, polarized audiences and disparagement of journalists by politicians – is a [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    Improving digital in the shift away from print

    Better Digital: Embracing data-based content and distribution strategies Unless a newspaper’s goal is to fade into oblivion, reducing print must be accompanied by investment in [...]

    August 26, 2019
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