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Sam Schramski named 2026 Knight-Risser Prize winner

Journalist will investigate how a push to fast-track critical mineral development is exposing public lands across the West to a new wave of mining claims with little oversight.

“Can you see our heart?”

What a class trip to New Orleans taught me about living archives.

Archives aren’t neutral: How reporters covering Indigenous issues can push back

I spent the last nine months digging into family history and my California Indigenous roots. Here’s what I learned.

The optic nerve to document

Why images as data could be photography’s next era.

The future perfect

The conventional beats of journalism may meet people’s informational needs but leave untouched something deeper: their existential ones.

John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships names 60th class

Innovators and leaders will spend 9 months together at Stanford University working on ideas for supporting journalism and journalists.

Wizards of nothing

Silicon Valley is casting spells. Here is what I think they are missing.

What it takes to build independent media under pressure

JSK leads a discussion at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy on journalists as founders.

Toward a new formula to define journalism

A simple way to think of how journalism fits in the online content machine.

What learning to save lives taught me about saving journalism

How did we get here? What symptoms are our newsrooms experiencing?

Hope for a nonprofit news organization’s survival under authoritarianism

No story should be silenced; it should be told, regardless of the cost.

We need to redesign the news to provide more signal — and less ‘noise’ — in turbulent times

But first we’ve got to break up with tech giants, who have too often shown how easily they can stymie or censor news and information producers of all kinds.

Taking a step back

This opportunity has allowed me to examine paradigms and question the seemingly unquestionable.

I have an idea to open 16,000 newsrooms in the U.S.

What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?

How newsrooms are capturing the “trans debate,” but not its consequences

Let’s change that together.

Is it time for journalists and newsrooms to become something else?

Provocations from the early days of my JSK Fellowship.

What is local journalism’s value to audiences — and how can we grow it?

With publishers more dependent than ever on the support of consumers, let’s make paying for local news a no-brainer for more people.

Surrender to serendipity at Stanford

Why I’m leaving space for unplanned discoveries as I explore solutions for Bellingcat.

JSK Journalism Fellowships welcomes three new board members

They are leading and building organizations at the forefront of supporting journalists and press freedom.

JSK names 16 journalism fellows for 2025-26

Journalism leaders and innovators will pursue individual projects as well as opportunities for collective action that responds to accelerating threats to independent media.