Advancing Journalism Innovation, One Fellowship at a Time
Paul Salopek traced the path of human migration. Hong Qu sorted fact from fiction. Jack Riley explored the stylish world of wearable technology. What will you do? From journalists and educators to...
View ArticleHow User Feedback Informed My Data Journalism Training Program
Since January, I’ve been developing DataN, the affordable, customized training program in data journalism for small newsrooms. Now the program has found its first user: Malaysiakini.com, the most...
View ArticleMeet the New Class of Stanford Knight Fellows for 2015-16
How do we engage Brazil’s emerging middle class? Can we leverage technology to empower women in newsrooms? What can we do to support the growing field of professional media freelancers? These are just...
View ArticleTow-Knight Fellows Show Off Range of Entrepreneurial Projects
Twenty Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism fellows recently presented their startups during our fifth annual Demo Week. The projects ranged from newsroom training services to niche reporting...
View ArticleHelping Small Newsrooms with Tutorials for Growing Revenues
I started the year with a problem: small news organizations don’t have enough time to keep their digital publishing and ad sales practices up to date. This is how I started to develop a solution....
View ArticleYale’s ‘Thread’ Program Stitches Storytellers Together
Thread at Yale was billed as a gathering for people interested in “storytelling in modern media.” Or, as the website explained: “It’s not a conference, and it’s not a workshop. It’s both. Maybe it’s...
View ArticleHow to Conquer Dysfunction with Team Projects
People matter. I have witnessed the power of that simple truth all my life. People make things happen. In the Lab, the students’ success is my success. That’s exactly how it should be. When I became...
View ArticleThe Power of Know in the Newsroom
I don’t care. It’s a harsh statement that always takes people by surprise when they first hear me say it. It’s one of the first external complaints teams must address, and it lands without warning. Let...
View ArticleThe Power of Citizen Journalists in Remote, Underserved African Communities
What options are available to backwater communities that want to attract government attention or media interest? In Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, some members of such communities were eager to tell...
View ArticleWhy Journalism Needs To Think Outside The Box (in Design)
I recently discovered the educative project Journalism + Design, which combines the methodologies of design thinking with journalism and encourages journalism students to consider the design center in...
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