For three decades, Jerry Mitchell was an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. He spent those years digging into crimes so closely aligned with the civil rights era, he little believed it possible there was any stone to be overturned or any clue left to be found. “I have always been attracted, you…
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Metrics have always played an important role in journalism, but different newsrooms might not think about them in the same way. By measuring something as simple as a reader comment, or whether a far-reaching and well-received investigative piece was well received and a tool for change, newsrooms and journalists can better gauge if they’re doing…
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Ralph Engelman, a senior professor of journalism at Long Island University Brooklyn and co-administrator of the George Polk Awards, joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss this year’s award winners, including three first-time awards for digital outlets, and why newspapers need to reconsider the importance of investigative journalism.
Read More442. 2020 Lookback: America from Canada’s perspective December 31, 2020 Amber Healy Podcast, Season 8 00:27:50 Comments Off on 442. 2020 Lookback: America from Canada’s perspective Dave Bidini discusses a special edition of the West End Phoenix examining what it’s like to observe the U.S. from across the shared border. Listen Remembering Tiffany Shackelford December…
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Paul Singer discusses the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting’s successful effort that expose unfair practices at the state and local level in Massachusetts to routinely exclude minority-owned businesses from receiving millions of dollars in government contracts.
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Nick Diakopoulos is an assistant professor in communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University where he’s also the director of the Computational Journalism Lab. In addition, Diakopoulos the author of Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media. Recently, it was announced that he is joining Jeremy Bowers’ team at The Washington Post to develop…
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