When taking a human-centered design approach to building a product or service, the first step is to get a deep understanding of the needs and motivations of the people you’re...
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...
Playful experimentation is at the heart of Journalism + Design’s approach to journalism education. Our first few years of teaching have yielded an array of courses, tools, and lessons for...
Throughout his career, journalist Cole Goins has worked at the intersection of community and collaboration. Using what he calls solutions tactics and deep listening, Goins wants to empower readers with information and...
Journalism + Design dove into the heart of one of the most critical issues facing the future of journalism: the role of advertising technology on news platforms. In a three-part...
Journalists and designers tell stories, but we also read, listen, watch, play…So periodically we round up stories that the Journalism + Design team are looking at, listening to, and interacting with. There...
In an article published on Nieman Lab, Founding Director of Journalism + Design Heather Chaplin argues for journalistic resilience as the antidote to the industry’s current trust crisis. The article is...
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...
