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What is journalism school for? A call for input
[I’ve asked Seth Lewis, a former Miami Herald editor and smart journalism professor-in-training at the University of Texas, to join our cast of occasional commentators here at the Lab. One of his...
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Is online news just ramen noodles? What media economics research can teach us...
The New York Times’ announcement that it would be charging for some access to its website, starting in 2011, rekindled yet another round of debate about paywalls for online news. Beyond the practical...
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What the Times-NYU partnership says about the future of journalism education:...
When The New York Times and New York University announced last week that they would collaborate on a news site covering the East Village neighborhood, it got me thinking: Beyond Manhattan, what could...
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Opening up journalism’s boundaries to bring change back in: How Knight and...
It was with considerable irony that I found myself last week missing much of the action surrounding the announcement of the latest winners of the Knight News Challenge, all because I was scrambling to...
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Metrics, impact, and business plans: Things to watch for as the Knight News...
In recent years, it’s been something of a parlor game in future-of-journalism circles to speculate about the $25 million Knight News Challenge: Who’s going to win this year? What are the judges looking...
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Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections...
As someone who probably has spent more time thinking about the Knight News Challenge than anyone outside of Knight Foundation headquarters — doing a dissertation on the subject will do that to you! —...
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The gap between journalism and research is too wide
In 2018, I attended two conferences — one academic, one industry — that revealed something important about the state of engagement between journalists and the researchers who study news. In short: The...
View Article20 questions for 2020
We like symmetry in numbers. So here are 20 (mostly hypothetical) questions that could prompt some reflection as we enter 2020: 1. What if journalists were to cut the time they spend on Twitter in...
View Article“Stick to sports”? How ESPN became politicized
Editor’s note: Longtime Nieman Lab readers know the bylines of Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. Mark wrote the weekly This Week in Review column for us from 2010 to 2014; Seth’s written for us off and...
View ArticlePeople’s (mis)trust of doctors can help us understand their (mis)trust of...
Public trust in U.S. institutions has fallen to disconcertingly low levels. Journalists, doctors, scientists, and academics — once perceived as professionals with valuable training and skills who had...
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