Culture guides how your newsroom reacts to everything that comes its way
Here’s something you don’t hear enough: Journalists, you’re doing a good job. Chances are good…
December 30, 2016
Lessons 2016
There’s power in vulnerability
Over the past nine months, I’ve admitted some big weaknesses to hundreds of strangers. I’ve…
December 29, 2016
It’s time to stop saying ‘old media’
This year, I visited six newsrooms. Some had low-ceilinged cubicle mazes with coffee-stained carpets and…
December 29, 2016
The Gannett-Tronc bidding war showed us why people are still investing in legacy media
Arguably the biggest newspaper business story of 2016 was Gannett's failed (for now) bid to…
December 28, 2016
Want to be a good writer? Keep talking.
I am retiring from The Poynter Institute on New Year’s Eve. As my wife and…
December 27, 2016
There are huge advantages to moving to a smaller city
In the summer of 2015, I left Washington, D.C. and moved to Carrboro, population 19,582,…
December 22, 2016
The Pulse nightclub shooting taught me to question everything, even what I heard and saw
It's still hard to believe Orlando is home to the worst mass shooting in U.S.…
December 20, 2016
2016 wasn’t the worst of it
This year. I started out as a managing editor of the L.A. Times. I end…
December 20, 2016
We cannot allow the anger in this moment to change who we are
Eileen Eagar was a single mom, working at a steel mill in Chicago. Feeding her…
December 20, 2016