Posts by Team J + D

Scott Klein writes about his initial experiences teaching Visualizing Data, the first required course in Journalism + Design.

A Storify of our lunch series, Breaking the Internet, by J+D student Annelise McGough.

The second semester of Journalism + Design is already in full swing. Here are a few highlights so far… Last month we hosted Serial and the Podcast Explosion (which is still generating...

“We’re not playing around with what we wish it were like to do journalism, or what we remember it was like to do journalism, but what it really is like...

We were struck this week by The New York Times’ fascinating interactive chart, which ranks 50 top news websites based on their mobile load times for editorial and advertising. It was...

Journalism + Design students throughout the program are working to master their interview skills. Helping them out this semester is New School alumnus Kevin Dugan, now the Wall Street reporter for...

The homepage, as NowThis recently declared, is officially “dated.” But just like real newsrooms, the New School Free Press editorial team was still struggling to adjust to digital media’s rapid paradigm shifts. It was only this year that...

Last Thursday, Journalism + Design and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY hosted “The Hunt for News Products of the Future,” an evening of conversation Aron Pilhofer, Interim...

Fourteen students, 12 weeks, and one directive: find something that really interests you. So began Journalism + Design’s first foray into podcasting. Armed with ProTools and their iPhone microphones, and with the...

This is “Podcast and Chill,” the final project of Benjamen Walker’s Fall 2015 Podcasting class. Check back each morning from now until March 26 to hear new episodes. Ever wonder what it’s...

This is “Podcast and Chill,” the final project of Benjamen Walker’s Fall 2015 Podcasting class. Check back each morning from now until March 26 to hear new episodes. Can a game teach...

This is “Podcast and Chill,” the final project of Benjamen Walker’s Fall 2015 Podcasting class. Check back each morning from now until March 26 to hear new episodes. Have you ever wanted...

This is “Podcast and Chill,” the final project of Benjamen Walker’s Fall 2015 Podcasting class. Check back each morning from now until March 26 to hear new episodes. The New School sits...

This is the final episode of “Podcast and Chill,” the final project of Benjamen Walker’s Fall 2015 Podcasting class.  What do you remember about being nineteen https://indiacialis.com/indian-levitra/? Sophie is 19...

If the court jester — who always seemed able to speak truth to the king — has a modern-day equivalent, it might be the creators of the satirical programs that...

Last August, as a staff writer for a well-known online news outlet, I committed the following act of journalism: I took an animation that had been produced by someone else, added some...

What journalists mean when they make reference to “design thinking” is the topic of a new report by Journalism + Design director Heather Chaplin, published by the Tow Center for Digital...

In its infancy, anyone with access could have a voice on the internet. Just two decades later, a handful of tech companies determine and enforce our online norms, governing what...

Since our launch in 2014, the Journalism + Design undergraduate program at The New School has become the second biggest major at the college and the fastest-growing degree at the...

Journalism + Design believes that design processes can help journalists become more imaginative, experimental, user-focused, and comfortable navigating the unknown. We recently hosted a workshop for reporters and editors on...

As venture capitalists and former tech execs speak out about social media addiction, designers are facing ethical questions about their work. Journalism + Design is hosting a discussion about whether...

Time Well Spent, the nonprofit started by repentant persuasive technologist Tristan Harris, has launched the Center for Humane Technology, a group that includes tech CEOs, investors, scholars, and mindfulness advocates....

In the inaugural episode of Tricky, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin look at perhaps the greatest challenge facing journalism today: the fight to capture your attention. Journalism may be a...

Facebook’s 35 mentions in the 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals solidified the social network’s position at the center of our current political and cultural conundrum. In this episode, Heather Chaplin and...

Many of the systems which define our world today – including government systems of laws and regulations – are dysfunctional, or even broken. What would it mean to look at...

In this episode of Tricky, Heather and Emily talk to Sarah L. Roberts, the woman who coined the term “commercial content moderation,” about how elements of online discourse are governed...

Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell talk to Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, about misinformation, conspiracy theories, and how journalism can survive in systems flooded with propaganda, with tips...

A perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, and a shriveled local media ecosystem. Heather and Emily are joined by Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan and Texas Tribune founder...

Heather and Emily hunker down in the journalistic equivalent of a nuclear bunker with Storyful’s Mandy Jenkins and design technologist Rick Barraza to explore the looming crisis of AI-generated fakery...

Emily and Heather consider what place opinion journalism has in public discourse today.With Jeet Heer of The New Republic, and Katie Kingsbury of the New York Times, the two ask: Is...

Journalism + Design’s founding director, Heather Chaplin, is exploring the idea of seeing the crisis in journalism as a wicked problem. “It’s a tangled knot that is changing and creating...

Heather and Emily are joined by David Uberti of Splinter News, one of the authors of “Univision is a Fucking Mess” about his employer. But, seeking silver linings wherever they...

How many fact-checking organizations does it take to change the proverbial fake news lightbulb? Elon Musk thinks we need at least one more. But maybe fact-checking should function more like...

On the finale of the first season of Tricky, Emily and Heather are joined by media critic and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen to discuss the reporting that exposed the...

Journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell to discuss the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and explore what its coverage says about the American media’s evolving relationship...

Emily and Heather discuss the fallout from the White House sharing a doctored video of Jim Acosta’s heated exchange with President Trump. They then listen to local reporters from around...

Writer and journalism professor Anjali Khosla joins Heather and Emily to talk about how we got this fraught relationship between tech platforms and news publishers. They cover the latest Facebook...

In the second part of Tricky’s deep-dive into the relationship between news publishers and tech platforms, Jezebel founding editor Anna Holmes joins Heather and Emily to talk about the glory...

How do we measure the reach and impact of online journalism? Does audience data belong in the newsroom? Though the meaning of audience metrics is often opaque, their effects on business and editorial decisions are...

BuzzFeed, Vice and other leaders in digital media have laid off over 2,000 people so far this year. It seems that nobody can bring in enough revenue from digital advertising...

Gawker unionized in 2015, setting off a wave of digital newsroom organizing that has since only been invigorated by layoffs and politics that leave journalists feeling embattled. Emily and Heather...

In the past few years, coverage of Silicon Valley in the press has shifted away from techno-utopian boosterism towards increasingly critical analysis. On this week’s episode, we hear some advice...

In “The Digital Maginot Line”, Mozilla fellow and disinformation expert Renée DiResta argues that perpetrators of information warfare have shifted from “targeting infrastructure to targeting the minds of civilians.” In this...

For our season two finale, Emily and Heather are joined by “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” writer Mike Drucker to talk about all things comedy and journalism: How do the...

We have two great jobs openings right now at Journalism + Design. Come and join a playful, dynamic team that is committed to teaching critical thinking, reporting and storytelling skills...

The Journalism + Design Lab has received funding from Press Forward to weave community colleges into local news infrastructure and build pathways for more people to produce, share, and act on...

Across every community, people are doing the work of journalism, but often in informal ways through grassroots networks. The Journalism + Design Lab is excited to share a new framework,...