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January 24th, 2017

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Demanding equality is a core tenet of journalism, a fundamental belief of many of its practitioners, and should no longer be sidelined. In an era when public trust in the media has hit a historic low and our work and its ethical underpinnings are questioned at every turn, America needs to get to know journalists as I know them: We are not perfect. Sometimes we are too obedient, too slow to query, too easy to distract. But we are by and large ethical and fair-minded people tasked with a job that gets harder all the time. Our identities are not a bias. Women who want equality aren’t biased. They are fair.

Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

Why journalists should be able to join the Women’s March - Columbia Journalism Review

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September 28th, 2016

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It probably comes as no surprise that jobs for journalists at newspapers continue to disappear. But in a disturbing development, digital news jobs that had been replacing some of the legacy positions appear to have hit a plateau.

Employment picture darkens for journalists at digital outlets - Columbia Journalism Review

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June 20th, 2016

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Local news organizations have always served their communities by keeping them informed and generating conversation. Why not make that conversation part of a business model by creating and monetizing events around local news? At Billy Penn, 84 percent of our revenue in 2015 came from events, and we expect that number to be similar in 2016.

Jim Brady

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February 10th, 2016

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The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders - Columbia Journalism Review

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December 8th, 2015

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The best and worst journalism of 2015 - Columbia Journalism Review

Lots of great stories to dig into and some lessons that all journalists can learn from in CJR’s look at important media stories and trends in 2015.

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July 23rd, 2015

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Why aren’t there more minority journalists? - Columbia Journalism Review

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July 7th, 2015

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The cult of Vice - Columbia Journalism Review

For young journalists, joining Vice seems to mean living a sensuous life and doing important work. While most new media gigs connote aggregation drudgery and hot takes, Vice staffers—average age 26 to 27—make longform documentaries, roam the globe, and largely eschew the clickbait content farm.

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May 18th, 2015

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Seymour Hersh has done the public a great service by breathing life into questions surrounding the official narrative of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Yet instead of trying to build off the details of his story, or to disprove his assertions with additional reporting, journalists have largely attempted to tear down the messenger.

The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful - Columbia Journalism Review

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May 15th, 2015

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Why almost no one’s covering the war in Yemen
by By Jared Malsin, CJR
More than 1,200 people have died since Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a military operation in Yemen in March, but the country has become so hard to access that news organizations are finding it almost impossible to cover the conflict. At the same time, a lack of electricity and poorly developed internet infrastructure are hampering the citizen journalism and online activism that have offered a window into other recent conflicts.
Yemen’s political turmoil has gone underreported for years, but journalists say the current conflagration has made reporting on the country more difficult than at any other time in memory. There are vanishingly few foreign journalists in Yemen as a result of the violence on the ground, access restrictions, and wavering commitment on the part of international news organizations.
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Image: An air strike hits a military site controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen’s capital Sanaa May 12, 2015. Khaled Abdullah

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April 30th, 2015

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Can virtual reality improve juvenile justice reporting? - Columbia Journalism Review

Students at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta are set to embark on a fascinating experiment in using virtual reality technology to bring to life the stories of children caught in the juvenile justice system.
The project, which recently received a $35,000 grant from the Online News Association’s $1M Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education, aims to create mini-documentaries that give voice to children who are often marginalized in traditional coverage of juvenile justice issues by the confidentiality that is designed to protect them. Protecting confidentiality in, say, a typical broadcast story—a child is heard as a disembodied robot voice or seen as a pair of hands or a silhouette—can dilute the story’s impact.

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