Life of a fellow
People often ask, what do fellows do during their time at Stanford? Here are some selected posts from fellows writing about their fellowship experiences.
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“Can you see our heart?”
What a class trip to New Orleans taught me about living archives.
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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.
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The optic nerve to document
Why images as data could be photography’s next era.
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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.
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Wizards of nothing
Silicon Valley is casting spells. Here is what I think they are missing.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Taking a step back
This opportunity has allowed me to examine paradigms and question the seemingly unquestionable.
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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?
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How newsrooms are capturing the “trans debate,” but not its consequences
Let’s change that together.
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Is it time for journalists and newsrooms to become something else?
Provocations from the early days of my JSK Fellowship.
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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.
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Surrender to serendipity at Stanford
Why I’m leaving space for unplanned discoveries as I explore solutions for Bellingcat.
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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.
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“What got you here won’t get you there”
Over the past eight months at Stanford, I’ve done almost everything except journalism. Here’s why — and the result.
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Animating with AI to keep up with the lies
Exploring ways to keep up with the bottomless pit of misinformation.
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Theft is not fair use
Artificial Intelligence companies have a copyright problem, and they know it.
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Reimagining Journalism: Updates from Stanford’s JSK Fellows
From defending press freedom to combating misinformation, the fellowship encourages participants to explore innovative solutions that strengthen their communities.
