Nieman Journalism Lab

On October 20, Community Media Day, Public Media Network (PMN) celebrated forty years of operating Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable channels. Distinct from local public broadcasting, PMN’s legacy is built...

Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they’re by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information “on background.” That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can...

Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie?
You might text your friend a white lie to get out of going to dinner, exaggerate your height on a dating profile to appear more attractive or invent an excuse to your boss over email to save face....

Cleveland, Ohio, is getting its own nonprofit news outlet in the new year, and it may be one of the largest in the United States.
The newly formed Ohio Local News Initiative announced on Tuesday that the American Journalism Project has partnered with a group of community organizations and leaders in Ohio to launch a “network of independent, community-led, nonprofit newsrooms” across...