Heather Chaplin | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Heather Chaplin

Heather Chaplin is director of the Journalism + Design program at The New School in New York.

“Once the goal is no longer to recreate news organizations as they existed in the past, but rather to ensure that reliable news and information flows — that there is a place in people’s lives for deliberation and debate — then possibility blossoms.”

Agree we’re partisan — for the democratic system

“Our prism of partisanship as the fundamental way to view the world is dangerously myopic, blinding us to the real workings of power, and causing us not to ask the right questions.”

September 16, 2018

“The cure lies within us, if we have the will and the imagination to develop it”

“Because journalism is not The New York Times, or BuzzFeed, or the Miami Herald. When you strip everything down to its essential function, journalism is a system for collecting, synthesizing, verifying and distributing news. Everything else is just form.”