Posts about Wicked Problems

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...

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”...

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...

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...

As 2018 gets underway, I have a suggestion: let’s stop looking for a solution to the future of journalism. At first it was: Get online! Teach reporters to code! Build...