Katie Zhu | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Katie Zhu

Katie Zhu is an engineer at Medium.

“Despite hiring more minority writers, the power structure in legacy news organizations is still largely controlled by the same types of people.”

The year of the splinter site

“Journalism shouldn’t live or die by the number of eyeballs or the number of shares it attracts. Focusing myopically on scale and continuing to optimize for the largest possible audience compels us to the lowest common denominator of editorial quality.”

The news mixtape

“Not quite the cassette tape you made your high school crush, but similar in sentiment.”

Moving responsive design beyond screen size

“Newsrooms are going to start thinking about responsive in terms of tailoring experiences based on a reader’s context in the physical world.”