In case you’ve forgotten already, there was a royal wedding last May. American Meghan Markle married Prince Harry. It was a big deal. Seemingly every news organization on the planet covered it, [...]
Earlier this year, journalist Madeleine Bair traveled around Oakland, Calif. with an oversized golden microphone. Bair interviewed dozens of members of the Latino immigrant community about the [...]
Tonight, in Strasbourg, France, Martine Wonner, a member of the French National Assembly, sat down for an interview with Pierre France, the founder of the local news site Rue89 Strasbourg. The [...]
In a lot of ways, historians are confronting many of the same issues as journalists. Just like reporters dive into communities to cover stories, archivists will often go into a community, conduct [...]
If, like me, you’ve donated to ProPublica, you’ve probably received an email from Jill Shepherd, ProPublica’s director of online fundraising and outreach. And as we approach the end of the year, [...]
More than 1 billion people use the Chinese messaging app WeChat each month. Not surprisingly, the app’s reach spreads far beyond China’s borders as Chinese expats, travellers, and students [...]
Comment sections get a bad rap. Often, they’re just a thing that exists that news orgs don’t take seriously, while other times they can regularly turn into breeding grounds for toxicity and spam. [...]
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the challenges WBUR and The Boston Globe faced when they attempted to create a daily sports podcast. After that story was published, I heard from a number of [...]
I have a confession to make: I use an adblocker. (To be fair, I subscribe to multiple news organizations and I whitelist news sites I visit regularly.) Last week, as I was reading Twitter instead [...]
If you’ve spent any time in Boston — or even just watched the movie Fever Pitch — you know Bostonians are crazy about sports. They live and die with the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins. [...]
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