News
News
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“Can you see our heart?”
What a class trip to New Orleans taught me about living archives.
May 28, 2026
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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.
May 27, 2026
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The optic nerve to document
Why images as data could be photography’s next era.
May 19, 2026
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The future perfect
The conventional beats of journalism may meet people’s informational needs but leave untouched something deeper: their existential ones.
May 13, 2026
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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.
May 07, 2026
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Wizards of nothing
Silicon Valley is casting spells. Here is what I think they are missing.
May 05, 2026
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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.
April 28, 2026
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Toward a new formula to define journalism
A simple way to think of how journalism fits in the online content machine.
April 21, 2026
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What learning to save lives taught me about saving journalism
How did we get here? What symptoms are our newsrooms experiencing?
April 16, 2026
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Hope for a nonprofit news organization’s survival under authoritarianism
No story should be silenced; it should be told, regardless of the cost.
April 10, 2026
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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.
December 08, 2025
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Taking a step back
This opportunity has allowed me to examine paradigms and question the seemingly unquestionable.
November 20, 2025
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I have an idea to open 16,000 newsrooms in the U.S.
What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?
November 20, 2025
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How newsrooms are capturing the “trans debate,” but not its consequences
Let’s change that together.
November 18, 2025
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Is it time for journalists and newsrooms to become something else?
Provocations from the early days of my JSK Fellowship.
November 18, 2025
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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.
November 13, 2025
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Surrender to serendipity at Stanford
Why I’m leaving space for unplanned discoveries as I explore solutions for Bellingcat.
November 10, 2025
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JSK Journalism Fellowships welcomes three new board members
They are leading and building organizations at the forefront of supporting journalists and press freedom.
October 16, 2025
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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.
May 06, 2025
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Examining the editor pipeline (or lack thereof)
Turns out even editors aren’t sure how we are training the next generation.
May 05, 2025