This year I’ve worked with many incredible and courageous people who are helping to move us all forward by writing with conviction. Sometimes, though, the more important something is, the more difficult it is to commit what you want to say to words. This year, I’ve worked with people who were writing proposals for crucial […]
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Even in crisis — especially in crisis — we need equity
Some groups have been excluded from the most powerful halls of U.S. news media for as long as U.S. news media have existed. The structures and institutions we rely on for news were designed, like many U.S. institutions, to grant power to a select few. Here is one example: We recently saw the 50th anniversary […]
A short note: Newsrooms that serve
It’s been one year and my niece and her friends’ news startup is going strong! They reached two-thirds circulation of their class and are now reviewing their costs (copying machines and staples) and distribution (reading period is a good time for news) while still serving their classmates. I’ve spent a lot of the last year […]
Join Women Do News and be a champion for your colleagues
Our challenge is this: Increase the representation of women journalists so that they have more opportunities and can take their rightful places as those who shape how we understand our world through news media.
In collaborations, who gets paid?
This is a short note to tackle something head on that I’ve been having sideways conversations about for a few months. It’s a very “inside-journalism” subject, so please forgive me if you aren’t in the media. Hopefully, this is still interesting and applicable to your industry. Many of my colleagues have asked to know more […]
Help! I need an editor!
I’m at the Collaborative Journalism Summit in Philadelphia and Darryl Holliday of City Bureau is articulating something really important: Journalism organizations need to equip people in some way. They need to equip people to take action, to tell their own stories, to participate in democracy. Read Darryl’s talk here. It’s a really beautiful way to […]
That time I was interviewed about Shah Rukh Khan…
Ada Tseng and Brian Hu asked me to join them for the first episode of season six of their amazing Saturday School Podcast. To talk about something I kind of dislike.
It’s 2019 — time for leaders to step up in news
I’m seeing talented colleagues step up to lead change in their newsrooms. And they’re doing it not at a deeper level than when I first started in this profession.