Cronkite News Lab

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Learning Never Stops at the Cronkite School This program will provide professionals with the tools to examine how brands can respond in a dynamic environment, leveraging the last several years while looking into the future of strategic communication

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Is it time to reconsider how open we should be with our staff bios and contact information?

Should reporter safety trump open contact details for newsrooms? - Poynter Sharing contact information helps reporters gain followers and receive story tips. It also opens them up to online harassment.

Have you heard? Votebeat is launching as a permanent newsroom.

Votebeat will cover local election administration as a permanent newsroom "How do you produce journalism that strengthens elections? That’s the question that runs through my mind every day."

The series"Crime Without Punishment" is a collaboration between the CBS News Investigative Unit and the CBS Local News Innovation Lab launched in January.

CBS Launches Joint Investigation Between News, Stations, Streaming ‘Crime Without Punishment’ series looks at the steady decline in solved homicides

This free online group seminar will help at any stage in their career develop story ideas to better cover gun violence and the gun debate in their communities.

How to Cover Gun Violence and the Gun Debate in America (June 2022) - Poynter This free online group seminar will help journalists develop story ideas to better cover gun violence and the gun debate in their communities.

No surprise here! About 7 in 10 journalists in the U.S. (69%) say Twitter is the social media site they use most or second most for their job.

Twitter is the go-to social media site for U.S. journalists, but not for the public The social media sites that journalists use most frequently for their jobs differ from those that the public turns to for news.

If we want to preserve public trust, the best thing we can do is tell the truth.

Opinion: It’s possible to be a journalist and a human The pursuit of the appearance of objectivity (as opposed to focusing on truthful and contextual reporting of the news) has always been a cynical public relations tactic, one that came to prominence at a time when the industry — and who works in it — looked very different than it does today. Perf...

Doing this story justice requires empathy, nuance and sustained, long-term attention.

The end of Roe v. Wade will shake up America for years. Here’s how to tell those stories It’s tempting to focus on the political battles. But at heart, the new reality of abortion access is about medical care and health equity.

Young people don’t just have different news behaviors than older groups. They also have different *attitudes* toward the news and how it’s practiced.

“The differences seem to be growing”: A look at the rising generation of news consumers Social natives ≠ digital natives.

While many of these kinds of initiatives will sound familiar to educators, this is the first effort of its kind to list them all in one place.

Pairing college journalism students with news outlets may be key to solving the local news crisis, researchers suspect - Poynter For the first time, an organization is tracking local news/student journalism partnerships in an effort to catalog and analyze them.

Fewer journalists in a community also means there are fewer people to fact-check those who are trying to promote a particular message.

Opinion: We need a news utility Why a portion of all internet ad sales should go to journalists’ salaries