Melody Kramer
Poynter
Carrboro, NC, United States
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Past articles by Melody:
Why women are primed to pioneer zero-waste journalism –
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7 next steps for #FreePress
News organizations must advance a steady series of actions in a larger campaign to confront attacks on the press. → Read More
What journalists should know about Wikipedia – a primer
Some basic facts * People around the world visit Wikimedia sites 15,000,000,000 each month, or 6,000 visits every second, every second of the day. It’s the fifth largest website in the world, according to Alexa. * More than 200,000 contributors worldwide volunteer each month to make Wikipedia better, through editing, translation, coding—all of the code is open source—fixing bugs, or a number of… → Read More
Minnesota Public Radio reaches out in Somali, and community listens
In his Nieman prediction last year, writer and technologist Paul Ford talked about → Read More
The next platform you should be thinking about? Calendar apps.
In his book "The Power of Habit," Charles Duhigg writes about a t → Read More
Museums are finding creative ways to engage with their audience — a lesson newsrooms should emulate
More than 30 million selfies were taken over the past few weeks using the Google Arts & Culture platform, → Read More
The Center for Cooperative Media’s collaborative journalism database is live!
Happy New Year! We’re excited to announce the soft launch of the Center for Cooperative Media’s Collaborative Journalism Database, which currently contains information about 94 news collaborations… → Read More
The General Data Protection Regulation is coming: How should newsrooms prepare?
Hello newsrooms, you have just about six months to prepare for sweeping change to data privacy regulations in the European Union. → Read More
2017: The Year of the Conversational, Explanatory Tweetstorm
Throughout the year, I’ve been collecting tweetstorms from journalists and news organizations explaining how they do what they do. → Read More
Skepticism and narcissism » Nieman Journalism Lab
"We all know the old journalism saw: 'If your mother says she loves you, check it out.' Our moms aren't the problem. No, if 2016 and 2017 have taught us anything, it's that our passion for journalism's flattering mythology only hurts us." → Read More
Will robots automate our journalism jobs? In many ways, they already have
In the past year, a number of articles have come out warning us that robots are going to replace our livelihoods. → Read More
It's time for a paywall revolution
In past columns, I’ve brainstormed how we might think differently about → Read More
How accessible is your website for the disabled? Consider doing an audit to find out
Since the beginning of 2015, at least 750 website accessibility lawsuits have been filed in federal court, with → Read More
Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning
If you searched Google immediately after the recent mass shooting in Texas for information on the gunman, you would have seen what Justin Hendrix, → Read More
This blog is worth exploring to get better insight into rural journalism
In February 1942, The Atlantic published an essay by Arthur Morgan, a civil engineer and educator who had previously served as the first chairman o → Read More
Can you trust government data or even find it? Many are sounding the alarm
Last week, the Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson reported that FEMA → Read More
Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here's why.
A few days before Hurricane Irma hit South Florida, I received a query on Twitter from a graphic designer named Eric Bailey. → Read More
Just 22, this digital news publisher is ready to go old-school with print
Chas Hundley’s family first settled in the unincorporated town of Gales Creek, Oregon, (pop. less than 600) in 1883. → Read More
Public media employees, this emergency fund has your back when disaster strikes
Last month, New York Times reporter Clifford Krauss wrote about → Read More
How a scrappy Wisconsin PBS station cooked up its own Great British Bake Off
For 10 weeks this year, star bakers from around Great Britain entered the Great British Baking Show to face off in weekly competitions involving ca → Read More