Google supports news, because news supports Google. Chrissy Towle, head of news and local media for the Google News Initiative, says the massive company launched the initiative as a three-year, $300 million commitment to help the news industry in new and inventive ways because, as a search engine, news is a very important component of how…
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If the news outlet you need doesn’t exist, sometimes you have to create it. Olivia Seltzer was a 13-year-old student in California around the time of the 2016 presidential elections and “all anyone at my junior high school could talk about was news and politics. The majority of the people at my school are Latino…
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Journalism and careers therein are changing. But the core values of being fair, being transparent, being accurate and getting the story quickly remain cornerstones of the industry. Peter Copeland, the former Washington, D.C. bureau chief for E.W. Scripps, got his start in journalism as a reporter in Chicago, thanks to political discussions with a neighbor…
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Lewis Raven Wallace has never been entirely objective — so how could he expect to be as a journalist? He cut his teeth as an activist and community organizer for issues such as transgender rights, police violence in Chicago and racial discrimination. On top of all that, as a transgender person his identity was never…
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As a new journalist, Sarah Ramantanis knows the world of reporting and writing isn’t what it used to be. But she’s still ready to do what she can to make a go of it. “I think I’ve always gravitated toward hearing stories about people going through something challenging,” she says. “One of the main reasons…
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The world of data journalism has opened up and become more user friendly than ever at the exact right moment. Simon Rogers, a data journalist with the Google News Initiative, says it wasn’t so long ago that graphic designers were still relying on pen and ink for their images. They had to work harder, and…
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