Annals of Communications Jump-starting journalism in smaller, economically depressed places requires a degree of patience, and some tolerance for risk. February 3, 2022 News deserts remain in much of the United States, where two-thirds of the nation’s counties don’t have a daily newspaper.Photograph…

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Advice from Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity, Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership You’ve heard it from me and plenty of others: Empathy is a critical skill for leaders. Its importance has been magnified over the last few years. I’ve…

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A book that didn’t age well. Rubens Cantuni 6 days ago · 14 min read Photo by Wahid Sadiq on Unsplash This book is incredibly popular, so I guess this article won’t be. But let me tell you why, after

By Cindy Royal, Professor January 31, 2022 I read with great interest the recent research study in Digital Journalism on “ Editorial Technologists as Engineers of Journalism’s Future: Exploring the Pr

KP Frahm Product Management in One Word January 31, 2022 A few days ago, I asked product managers on Twitter to share what it is they provide — by using just one word. My hope was to get some strong s

So many community weavers struggle with trying to activate the passive parts of their community. That can be a frustrating and exhausting task. But is it the right challenge to focus on? Fabian Pfortmüller 7 min read· Dec 15, 2021 -- Part I — Three concentric circles The three circles model,…

“The canister, the locker — all of those things were basically invented here in Yosemite,” says Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife and Visitor Use for Yosemite National Park. As for the problem that these inventions were created to solve? “The problem was not invented here,” Mazur says, “but we sure…

Summary Image Description: Illustration of person with guide dog, one in a wheelchair, a senior person who looks behind to see a child running by Alwar Pillai, CEO and Co-Founder, Fable I started Fable, an accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities because I wanted to change the…

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Fintech Judge Zia Faruqui is trying to teach you crypto, one ‘SNL’ reference at a time His decisions on major cryptocurrency cases have quoted "The Big Lebowski," "SNL," and "Dr. Strangelove." That’s

By Project Initiative Lead INMA Los Angeles, California, United States Connect OKRs are used by many. And those that use them will say they are exceptionally effective. However, one struggle I often see is as they trickle down from company/CEO level objectives to departmental, and even individual,…

Morton Mintz Born Jan. 26, 1922, was a reporter for 42 years, in St. Louis at the Star-Times and Globe-Democrat (1946-1958), and at the Washington Post (1958-1988). The story of Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical officer, preventing the sale of thalidomide, changed…

Measure for Measure: How to write a song and other mysteries. This month’s challenge for me is getting used to my “in-ear monitors.” These are little monitors that go into your ear so you can hear yourself onstage. I used them a month ago in Sweden for the first time in front of a live audience.…

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2004, journalist Michael Lewis published Moneyball, a bestselling book about how baseball general manager Billy Beane was able to turn around the flailing and cash-poor Oakland Athletics with a clever use of statistics, culminating in a record-breaking…

The Chicago Public Media Board of Directors (CPM), which runs public radio station WBEZ, voted on Tuesday to acquire the Chicago Sun-Times. Driving the news: The deal was a "no cash acquisition," according to the current Sun-Times investors. Why it matters: The move could create one of the largest…

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Emily Goligoski 10 min read· Jan 18, 2022 -- What we’ve found & how it has affected the ways we we distribute our journalism By Emily Goligoski, executive director of audience research, The Atlantic At The Atlantic we’re deeply committed to knowing what readers and listeners seek from The Atlantic,…

Camille Fournier 5 min read· Jan 15, 2022 -- Software engineers are attracted to formulas, algorithms, and structures. As people whose job it is to take ideas and turn them into predictable executable code, it is unsurprising that we’re drawn to ways of thinking that categorize and systematize…

Share Written by Henry Powderly Table of Contents We went into this experiment knowing there was some risk, but haven't seen anything to make us reconsider the move. A little less than two months ago Search Engine Land made the decision to stop publishing versions of our content using Google’s…

Details show Google employees fretting its ad tech auctions were ‘untruthful’ and based in ‘insider information’ Google said a lawsuit by state attorneys general was ‘full of inaccuracies and lacks legal merit.’ David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News Google misled publishers and advertisers for years…

Over the past decade, “audience development” has gone from a little-known marketing term to a familiar newsroom role. Now, audience development experts, audience engagement managers, and growth editors tasked with getting stories in front of more readers. Once upon a time, the skills needed were an…

As Election Day nears, news organizations that keep their journalism behind a paywall will likely give some of it away for free. When The New York Times dropped its paywall for 24 hours before election day in 2012, it was keeping with a policy of providing “critical information” for big breaking…

It all started with trying to predict the outcome of a US presidential election. Many practitioners date the beginning of computer-assisted reporting and data journalism to 1952 when the CBS network in the United States tried to use experts with a mainframe computer to predict the outcome of the…

When you choose a surgeon, a number of factors might cross your mind: Can I afford their services? How quickly can I see them? Did someone I trust refer me to them? What is their reputation? But medic

Add Axios as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios It’s a bull market for media companies targeting high-end readers, with Justin Smith and Ben Smith joining the likes of Puck, Air Mail, The Information, Axios, Punchbowl News, and others…

A big Canadian pension fund and EB-5 investors took big losses at 1 Willoughby Square.

It was 7.55am one February day in 2018 when members of an elite Italian police squad raided the Naples office of small news website. The previous day it had revealed links between elected politicians and organised groups in an illegal waste dumping racket, and its staff already at their desks looked…

Forms of automation such as artificial intelligence increasingly inform decisions about who gets hired, is arrested, or receives health care. Examples from around the world articulate that the technology can be used to exclude, control, or oppress people and reinforce historic systems of inequality…

International Women’s Day celebrates women’s achievements and raises awareness of the continuing mission towards gender equality. So it’s a good time to be reminded we still need to correct decades — centuries even — of gender bias in medicine and medical research. It’s no secret men and women are…

Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a fundamental relationship between force, mass and acceleration. He formulated a theory to describe that relationship –…

When broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. “This,” said the professor, “is alleged to be man’s first attempt at a calendar.” Toksvig and her fellow students looked at the bone in…