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In talking with educators around the country about issues they’re grappling with in the classroom, teaching students how to spot and deal with misinformation comes up regularly. From the COVID-19...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...