Alan Krawitz
Jill Abramson, Steven Brill Back Long-Form Journalism Startup
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A new startup venture spearheaded by former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson and award-winning journalist-Court TV founder Steven Brill focusing on long-form journalism says it will advance writers [...]
Reynolds Business Journalism Center Offers Financial Fellowship Worth $1,500
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Financial journalists take note, there is still time to apply for a Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism fellowship, worth $1,500 for a three day course of intensive [...]
Israeli Tech Start-up Spot.IM Enables Publishers To Turn Visitors Into a Community
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The creators of Tel Aviv-based Spot.IM say that their free platform, now currently in Beta, can turn any website into its own social network, thus greatly diminishing the need and [...]
Hacks and Hackers New Executive Director is Planning for Growth
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For the uninitiated, the Hacks and Hackers Network is an international, grassroots organization of journalists and technologists who use technology to visualize information and find and tell stories. Since the [...]
Knight Survey: High School Students Support First Amendment More Than Adults
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High School students, who rank among the heaviest users of digital media, support First Amendment freedoms more than adults, for the first time in more than a decade, according to [...]
Uncertain Future for <em>NY Times</em> Reporter Protecting Confidential Source
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It’s been more than three months since the Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Pulitzer-winning New York Times investigative reporter James Risen, who continues to face the looming threat [...]
Grading the Media on Ferguson Coverage
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Now that the Ferguson protests are slowly beginning to wind down, it’s likely a good time to assess how the media handled the coverage of the recent unrest, triggered by [...]
Journalism Under Attack
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Most journalists can agree that the profession has for years now been under financial attack by way of newsroom layoffs, the decline of newspapers/ad revenues and media consolidation, among other [...]
$5,000 Top Prize for Gannett Foundation’s Al Neuharth Award for Investigative Journalism
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The Gannett Foundation’s Al Neuharth Award for Investigative Journalism is seeking investigative reporters who broke ground in the past year.
Pew Study: Statehouse News Coverage Dropping, Shifting
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While the overall number of print reporters continues to decline—along with newspapers in general—the numbers of print reporters assigned to State Capitals full-time has seen a precipitous drop in the [...]