I recently saw a tweet pleading, “We need more minorities in journalism.” As a minority former journalist, this struck a nerve. I remembered when I was five years into the business working in Boulder, ...

Misinformation thrives when local news dies. Local news is critical to keeping residents informed and holding government officials accountable. But thanks to dominant tech companies like Google and ...

I left political journalism once before—to help launch a social media site designed to engage political influencers in civil conversation. It failed (one critic called it “the idiotic Hotsoup.com”), ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 2025 Cleveland Media Academy celebrated “graduation day” March 1 by inviting News Channel 5 anchor and reporter Tiffany Tarpley to the cleveland.com newsroom to encourage, inform ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The independent student newspaper that gave both of us our start in journalism is now gone—its board secretly voted to ...

This case study is part of Resilience Reports, a series from the European Journalism Centre about how news organizations across Europe are adjusting their daily operations and business strategies as a ...

Traditional Fourth Estate journalists are being challenged by more than just business models. Jobs are scarce, and competing news creators challenge values that have been taught for years in the ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. We can all agree it’s been a rough season for the news media. Hostile political crowds, accusations of ...

A few weeks ago, I attended a major media sustainability conference organised by the Media Development Investment Fund and the Daily Trust Foundation. While the event focused on the future of ...

At SEJ Summit 2016 in Chicago, I had the opportunity to speak with Amy Vernon, Director of Audience Development at The Daily Dot, about her lessons in the newsroom and its effects on her approach to ...

The Auburn Journal, Folsom Telegraph, Lincoln News Messenger, Loomis News, Placer Herald and Roseville Press-Tribune were part of a deal to sell 11 California newspapers to Alta Newspaper Group, a ...