Listen: Where Will Journalism Be In 2050?
What is the future of the free press? That’s the question driving The Journalism 2050 Podcast, a new show from Columbia Journalism Review, hosted by our own Heather Chaplin, founding...
Posts about 21st-Century Journalism
Complexity, participation and power: Lessons from blending systems thinking and journalism
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...
Introducing a systems thinking toolkit for journalists
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...
How Journalists Can Serve Their Communities, An Interview With Cole Goins
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...
‘The Cure Lies Within Us’: Heather Chaplin On Journalism’s Crisis 2.0
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...
Crime Reporting Needs To Be Reformed. Enter Systems Thinking
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...
“Fail Often”: Journalism Professors Get A Crash Course In Design
By plane, train, and ferry, 12 professors of Journalism and English made their way to New York City on June 19 to participate in a two-day design and systems thinking...
Community, Power, and Gentrification in North Carolina
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...
How Systems Thinking Can Transform Journalism
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”...
Liesl Schillinger’s Quest To Define and Defend Facts In A ‘Post-Truth’ Era
In a personal essay published in the New York Review of Books, J+D’s very own Liesl Schillinger reflects on her year spent teaching a course she designed called: Facts/Alternative Facts: Media in...
