What would it look like if more journalism focused on illuminating complex systems over surface-level events? How could journalists better equip their communities with the information they need to understand...
In July, we launched our online Systems Thinking for Journalists toolkit, filled with flexible exercises and ideas for journalists and their communities to apply the practices of systems thinking to...
This post was originally prepared as a lightning chat for Gather, a platform by the Agora Journalism Center to support community-minded journalists. Watch the live chat here (requires registration). In...
The COVID-19 pandemic and global protests against police brutality in 2020 have put the systemic nature of our most entrenched problems in full view. As journalists, the work we do...
When City Bureau, a civic media organization based in Chicago’s South Side, and The Center for Media Engagement, a research initiative of the University of Texas at Austin, surveyed people...
Mark Schultz, an editor for The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun in North Carolina, heard this anecdote earlier this year: “If you had a fish tank and one day...
The world faces difficult problems: violent extremism, the impact of global migration, income inequality, and climate change, to name a few. But it’s important to remember that these “wicked problems”...
When the news broke in October 2017 about Harvey Weinstein and his long history of sexual assault and harassment, I wanted to understand the full scope of the problem: How...
