What chasing clicks means for news: A tale of two dailies
A case study comparing two community newspapers finds that the paper more focused on audience metrics published fewer stories about civic issues.
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How they did it: Reporters uncovered Trump hush payments to two women
A Wall Street Journal reporter discusses the newspaper’s investigation into secret payoffs Donald Trump and his associates arranged to suppress sexual allegations from two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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How they did it: Public records helped reporters investigate police abuse of power
Christian Sheckler of the South Bend Tribune and Ken Armstrong of ProPublica explain how they used public records to spotlight problems within the Elkhart, Indiana criminal justice system.
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How they did it: Two journalists talk about their teen labor trafficking investigation
Journalists Daffodil Altan and Andrés Cediel discuss the importance of tenacity and cultural competency in doing high-quality investigative journalism.
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Data journalism at two elite news outlets lacked transparency: Research
Data journalism produced by two of the nation’s most prestigious news organizations has lacked transparency, a new study in Digital Journalism finds.
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Targeted internet ads may improve millennial voter turnout
Targeted internet ads may encourage more millennials to vote in municipal elections, according to a new study published in Political Communication.
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Covering viral research: Tips from Harvard’s ‘6 french fries’ guy
Eric Rimm reflects on his viral comments about French fries, offering pointers for how to cover research that’s getting a lot of media attention.
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‘Fake news’ and school uniforms: Our most popular research roundups in 2018
The 10 research roundups our readers visited most often in 2018 focus on topics ranging from fake news and school uniforms to the Supreme Court and Olympic games.
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Skydivers don’t need parachutes, scientists don’t actually find
A new study serves as an example for all journalists who swoop in and out of academic papers without much care.
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Journalists perpetuate myth about suicide during winter holidays
Most news stories that discussed suicide and the holiday season last winter perpetuated the myth that suicides rise during the holidays, finds a University of Pennsylvania analysis.
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