• Fellowships
  • Reports
  • Lab
  • Storyboard
    • Nieman Foundation at Harvard
    HOME
    About
    Subscribe
    Archives
              
    Foundation
    Reports
    Storyboard
    LATEST STORY
    Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
    Business Models Mobile & Apps Audience & Social Aggregation & Discovery Reporting & Production
    ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
    Aug. 1, 2013, 2:01 p.m.
    If you love storytelling and public records, MuckRock has the podcast for you
    LINK: www.muckrock.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Caroline O'Donovan   |   August 1, 2013

    MuckRock, the website that helps you FOIA people, launched a podcast today. They’re taking material and stories built up over the years and repackaging them in a way that allows fans to lean back and enjoy the fruits of their investigative labors.

    Their first stab at telling “the amazing stories documents have to tell” revisits an earlier article by Bradley Campbell:

    Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman is remembered for fathering quantum electrodynamics and his work building the first atom bomb. But while his roguish charm won over classrooms and the public, Feynman was subjected to years of espionage and scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    Enjoy!

    Show tags
     
    What’s the best way to follow how the news is changing?
    Our daily email, with all the freshest future-of-journalism news.
    Prefer a once-a-week email? »
    The latest from Nieman Lab
    Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
    Sarah Scire
    The Onion adds a new layer, buying Alex Jones’ Infowars and turning it into a parody of itself
    Joshua Benton
    The Guardian won’t post on X anymore — but isn’t deleting its accounts there, at least for now
    Laura Hazard Owen
    What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?
    Michael J. Socolow
    I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.
    Laura Hazard Owen
    Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.
    Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
    A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.
    The Onion adds a new layer, buying Alex Jones’ Infowars and turning it into a parody of itself
    One variety of “fake news” is taking possession of a far more insidious one.
    The Guardian won’t post on X anymore — but isn’t deleting its accounts there, at least for now
    Guardian reporters may still use X for newsgathering, the company said.
    Help advance the Nieman Foundation’s mission “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism” by making a donation.

    To promote and elevate the standards of journalism

    Covering thought leadership in journalism

    Pushing to the future of journalism

    Exploring the art and craft of story
    © 2024 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College  /  Some rights reserved
    Harvard Trademark Privacy Digital Accessibility
    Walter Lippmann House    One Francis Ave.    Cambridge, MA 02138    617 495 2237