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Articles by Hanaa' Tameez

Hanaa’ Tameez is a staff writer at Nieman Lab. Before starting here, she worked at WhereBy.Us and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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“Good journalism is about doing compelling stories, and we seem to have forgotten that when it comes to climate journalism.”
“The personality-driven model of news is not going away.”
“Audiences really want to see you be a human being.”
From left to right: journalists Hannah Wise, Johny Cassidy, Joanna Crawford, and Korina Theodorakaki, on the journalism and disability panel at the International Journalism Forum in Athens, Greece on September 28, 2023.
“The tools that journalists are given [should be] accessible — and designed with people like me in an advisory role.”
“You say you’re giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you’re actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms. But they’re not filtering down enough.”
“We aren’t, and do not want to be, like the traditional radio stations in Mexico.”
“For me, social media is the purest way of doing service journalism.”
“There’s no point in making a wonderful website or an amazing app if people aren’t going to the website or downloading the app.”
“It takes away a little bit of anxiety about pursuing a degree in journalism if you know that there is a path through which the cost can be covered.”