Academic research and studies: How they work and why journalists should care
Overview article that provides an introduction to the academic research world and explains how it can be leveraged by journalists.
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Research-based ideas for college campus reporting: Potential stories
Roundup of useful studies that can enhance campus-based stories and provide material for practicing knowledge-based reporting.
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Journalists’ insights on the evolving nature of the media: Spring 2014 highlights at the Shorenstein Center
Spring 2014 highlights from talks by journalists and media thinkers, including David Carr, Julia Angwin, Andrew Revkin, Deborah Amos, Brian McGrory, Ben Smith and Andrea Mitchell
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Math basics for journalists: Working with averages and percentages
Understanding numbers and conveying their meaning is part of being a journalist. You should have a working knowledge of arithmetic, be comfortable with statistics, percentages and more.
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Harvard’s Tom Patterson on knowledge-based journalism: Video research chat
Recent interviews with Journalist’s Resource research director Thomas Patterson. Patterson is author of the forthcoming book Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-based Journalism.
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Media bias, partisanship and what it means for democracy: Research chat and reading list
Highlights and audio from a series of 2014 seminars held at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a reading list of related work by the scholars, selected by Journalist’s Resource.
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Research chat: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and what the media needs to know
2014 discussion with the senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.
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Why the press matters: Six compelling investigations and their broad civic impacts
2014 review of the six finalists for the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Prize; the social impacts of each story is articulated by the reporters.
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Thoughts on the media future: N.Y. Times’ David Carr, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell
2014 roundup of recent Harvard Shorenstein Center events with the New York Times‘ David Carr, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
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Research chat: Global supply chains expert Richard Locke
2014 interview with Richard Locke, of MIT and Brown University, who studies global labor and corporate responsibility issues.
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