These are the It’s All Journalism episodes and blog posts published in 2019.
A group of eighth grade girls have done something really special: They went from not knowing what a podcast was earlier this year to creating an award-winning conversation about periods. The students at Bronx Prep Middle School — Litzy Encarnacion, Ashley Amankwah, Kassy Abad, Kathaleen Restitullo, Carolina Abreu, Jasmin Acosta and Riazel Febles — along…
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It might not have been the career he envisioned, but Dan Primack has been covering business for decades. Even if he’d known from a young age he wanted to go into journalism, and even if his uncle was a columnist at the Boston Herald, Primack stumbled into financial and business journalism. “I followed a girl…
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We’re familiar with the nutrition labels that are required on food products, telling us the calorie content in addition to how much of our daily percent of sugar, sodium and fiber is in a given item. NewsGuard creates similar nutrition labels but for websites that provide, or claim to provide, news and information. “We’ve already…
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As a journalism professor, Stephen Davis likes to know where his students stand in terms of being able to suss out the truth from the fibs. Each year, he asks his students to research a person online, collect as much data as possible in a given amount of time, and try to determine what’s real…
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Trish Bendix is a freelance entertainment writer and late night TV columnist for The New York Times. She got her start as an LGBT journalist writing for AfterEllen, an online publication that followed the depiction of lesbian women and couples at a time when being a gay woman on TV was literally major national news….
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I’m happy to announce that 22 Hours: An American Nightmare, the podcast we interviewed Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore about last week, shot to the top of Apple Podcasts’ ratings in its first week. While we had very little do with the show’s success, we’re happy to see our podcasting friends doing well. This morning, I posted a short…
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