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Archives: February 1, 2017

Shan WangFebruary 1, 2017

The boundaries of journalism — and who gets to make it, consume it, and criticize it — are expanding

Reporters and editors from prominent news organizations waded through the challenges (new and old) of reporting in the current political climate during a Harvard University event on Tuesday night.

Nieman Lab StaffFebruary 1, 2017

“I think that journalism needs to rediscover its roots as a blue-collar profession”

Top journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and the Nieman Foundation discuss the path forward for reporting in the Trump era.

Kathleen KingsburyFebruary 1, 2017

Kathleen Kingsbury: How The Boston Globe decided it had reached its threshold for moral outrage

“It’s one of those things that a lot of us had gotten into our business to do: to have impact, to change the world, whether you worked for the opinion pages or the newsroom.”

Brian Stelter: We need to talk about whether news as we know it can survive a post-fact era

“Many Americans — I would say, on a positive day, most Americans — do care about sources of information, do care about the truth.” Brian Stelter

Lolly BoweanFebruary 1, 2017

Lolly Bowean: When we tell our communities’ stories, we show people how to relate to one another

“I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do.”

Bill KristolFebruary 1, 2017

Bill Kristol: Remember, demagogues thrived long before the Internet disintermediated the news, too

“Joe McCarthy, you know, was very successful before the Internet, before social media. George Wallace won five states in 1968…So I think it’s too simple to assume that all of our problems are due to this.”

Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2017

Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker defends his decision to limit use of “majority Muslim country”

“I am an absolute stickler in all of our coverage for precision in language because, as you say, words are loaded. They have political meanings, they have cultural meanings, and they have identities that go beyond simple words.”

Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2017

Report: Mobile adblocking has exploded in Asia, but it’s still tiny in North America and Europe

In Indonesia, 58 percent of mobile devices are running adblockers. In the United States: 1 percent.

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 1, 2017

With its new daily podcast, The New York Times attempts to break away from “reporting from on high”

“I think people are craving intimacy, and the honesty of a format in which journalists talk not just at them about the story, but are grappling with it in real time and are talking about the process they went through.”