Hanaa' Tameez
Nieman Lab
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Apple News too corporate for you? Try this app
OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives." → Read More
A Puerto Rican journalist is helping crowdfund independent journalism on the island
9 Millones is a publishing and crowdfunding platform for journalists looking to investigate stories about Puerto Rico. → Read More
The Dallas Morning News guts its Spanish-language newspaper, Al Día, after 19 years
"It's like is cutting up a car and using the pieces for parts.” → Read More
New York Focus, the Empire State–centered newsroom, aims to hold Albany accountable
"How is it possible that my state, that I’ve lived in all my life, is run like this?" → Read More
Sahan Journal is using voice-note newsletters to reach Somalis in Minnesota
"We wanted the questions and feedback and the insights of Somalis to be at the center." → Read More
How New Lines Magazine built a home for long-form international reporting
“Often when an editor declines or dilutes a good story, it's to say it's too in the weeds. I always joke, 'What's wrong with weeds?’” → Read More
The Washington Post launches a year in news à la Spotify Wrapped
"We initially built a 'look-back' experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading 'personality' and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past." → Read More
Coming to a Hawaii library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up newsrooms around the state
“We learned that people have an interest if they can get to us." → Read More
Dean Baquet: “The audience for investigative reporting is tremendous”
"Some of the finest journalism I've been associated with started out as an inkling." → Read More
Spain leans into daily news podcasts, with eight shows launched since 2021
"It’s a format that rewards a bit of journalistic intuition, as it's almost impossible to build podcasts to just fit searches and platform algorithms.” → Read More
“You don’t know which side is playing you”: The authors of Meme Wars have some advice for journalists
"The media treating Twitter like an assignment editor is one of the fundamental errors that enabled meme warriors to play everyone." → Read More
The Law & Justice Journalism Project aims to help journalists covering crime and the U.S. legal system
For years, members of the news industry has been talking about how crime journalism can do more harm than good and have tried to find solutions. The impact of bad crime reporting is widespread and it can take years to repair broken trust with audiences. That's why the Law & Justice Journalism Pr… → Read More
“A bigger focus on the human impact of technology”: Sisi Wei is The Markup’s new editor-in-chief
"What we often don’t think about is how tech accountability is also so many other types of coverage. It’s labor coverage, climate change coverage, healthcare coverage, criminal justice coverage, immigration coverage — I could go on and on." → Read More
How one Mexican magazine adopted inclusive language in Spanish
"The use of non-discriminatory language can become a tool to make diversity visible." → Read More
Raíchali Noticias focuses on community listening in Northern Mexico’s Indigenous communities
“You have to understand the context that these communities live in before you go in with a recorder, extract information, and leave." → Read More
Prism aims to make wellness stories more accessible, less cringe
"It's not pictures of beautiful women doing handstands on surfboards." → Read More
The Tributary, covering Florida’s largest city, will be a worker-directed nonprofit
Staffers will take part in making collective decisions about the organization, from hiring and compensation to developing the budget, along with their journalistic work. → Read More
Stop googling monkeypox and read this story about “cyberchondria” and the news
"When people search for a common symptom, the Internet is not always programed to provide the information they need." → Read More
Factchequeado launches to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
“One of our approaches here is thinking if we manage [to get] platforms and the companies to put attention into Spanish-language misinformation in the U.S., that is going to benefit our regions in the long term." → Read More
Calendly didn’t pay me to write this post. It’s just a great tool for journalists.
On average, it takes about seven emails to find and agree upon a meeting time. I don't have the brain space for that. → Read More