Journalists incorporate data into their reporting for good reason: numbers tell us important, odd and interesting things about ourselves. Hidden within raw data are insights about our patterns, problems and trends, such as the …
Month: April 2019
Avoiding the horse race: a resource guide for ethical election coverage
By Isaac Alter The 2020 presidential primary will not officially begin for another ten months. And yet campaigning, and media coverage about that campaigning, are already well underway. A large field of Democratic candidates …
When news orgs turn to stock imagery: An ethics Q & A with Mark E. Johnson
As the practices of journalism continue to become more digitally oriented, they’re also becoming more visual. Metrics for more than the last two decades have shown that having a visual attached to a story, …