Lene Bech Sillesen
Columbia Journalism Review
New York, NY, United States
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A new website wants to disrupt how freelancers do business
It was over a dinner of Chinese food that the seed for Scott Carney's new business was formed. Carney, a book author and journalist, was catching up last year with a friend who writes for The New Yorker.... → Read More
A new website wants to disrupt how freelancers do business
It was over a dinner of Chinese food that the seed for Scott Carney's new business was formed. Carney, a book author and journalist, was catching up last year with a friend who writes for The New Yorker.... → Read More
The invaluable service of TrollBusters
Michelle Ferrier loved being a columnist with the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida. She established a real connection with her audience, she says, built around a fly-on-the-wall view into her African-American family life. Then, two years into the... → Read More
How screens make us feel
Print and online readers of a heart-wrenching true story display equal empathy and emotional engagement, regardless of the medium in which they read, according to a study conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review and the George T. Delacorte... → Read More
Khadija Ismayilova gets the last laugh
Even after Khadija Ismayilova had spent several months in prison--an event human rights organizations call → Read More
Podcast goes behind the scenes of The Guardian ’s climate change campaign
Earlier this year, then-editor in chief of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, sat down at a board meeting with one clear goal: to convince the others that The Guardian should divest from fossil fuel companies, just as the publication’s... → Read More
Journalism and the power of emotions
One sweltering day in the late 1880s, journalist and photographer Jacob Riis found his way to a stifling slum tenement on Mott Street in New York. A family sat huddled around a small child who lay still, her breath labored. Their expressions were blank with futility. The little girl wasn’t sick with disease, and she […] → Read More
Can mainstream US media tap into non-English audiences?
When the New York Times's series investigating the nail salon industry, → Read More
A new website wants to disrupt how freelancers do business
It was over a dinner of Chinese food that the seed for Scott Carney's new business was formed. Carney, a book author and journalist, was catching up last year with a friend who writes for The New Yorker.... → Read More
Why a New York Times nail salon exposé is published in four languages
While doing dogged shoe leather reporting for her New York Times investigative series on the exploitation of workers in the nail salon industry, Unvarnished, journalist Sarah Maslin Nir had unusually well-groomed nails. Getting interviews with salon workers--who often... → Read More
“Complicated stories”: Sonia Faleiro presents conflicting narratives around an alleged gang rape in rural India
In January 2014, the story of yet another gang rape generated headlines in India and soon echoed through the international media. A 20-year-old woman from the isolated West Bengal village of Subalpur had allegedly been raped by 13... → Read More
Should journalists expose trolls?
Public humiliation is never more entertaining than when it’s justified. That probably explains the success of Swedish TV show Trolljägarna, or Troll Hunters. It follows journalist Robert Aschberg as he tracks down so-called “trolls” who have posted hate speech in social forums or abused individuals online and then confronts them on-camera. The entertainment value is […] → Read More
What documentary filmmakers and journalists can learn from each other
A new report seeks to promote dialogue between the two groups → Read More
What game design can do for journalism
Three newly selected fellows at American University talk about the medium's future → Read More
What game design can do for journalism
Three newly selected fellows at American University talk about the medium's future → Read More
Why a Danish newspaper won't publish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Jyllands-Posten was at the center of a 2005 cartoon crisis. After numerous terror threats, editors chose to play it safe → Read More
Know your audience
It’s not just journalists whose quirks and interests are being monitored: Profiles of their audiences are now accessible to anyone with an internet connection. In November, online-market-research firm YouGov launched a new app that profiles the target audiences of everything from Facebook to the Bible. The data sets are compiled from over 200,000 adult YouGov members in the UK, with plans to… → Read More
Understanding 'the right to be forgotten'
Here's a look at what Google did and didn't remove → Read More
The New York Times' changing racial labels
Using the paper's Chronicle tool, a linguistics student examines how various words were used in history → Read More
Building a new storytelling movement
A couple of months after the Newtown school shooting, Judy Rodgers, founding director of the nonprofit Images and Voices of Hope, read a story in The New Yorker that she couldn’t shake. “Local Story,” by Rachel Aviv, followed the inner workings of community newspaper The Newtown Bee as reporters and editors tried to bring their community closer while the town was flooded with outsiders, and to… → Read More