Trauma-informed reporting can improve journalism for both reporters and sources
More young and relatively inexperienced journalists are being forced to cover mass shootings. Journalism schools need to be preparing them.
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The dam has finally broken for nonprofit news outlet unionization
Nonprofit outlets have been slow to unionize, despite their widely-held “savior” status within journalism.
In the midst of bankruptcy, VICE executives got paid. Workers didn’t.
The company paid several senior executives over a million dollars one day after the company announced layoffs of more than 100 employees.
After pledging “accountability,” Reveal laid off all Black unionized staff
Staffers of color say the investigative journalism nonprofit undervalues non-white reporters and is resistant to changing its ways.
‘This is the Boogeyman’: San Diego Union-Tribune staff devastated by sale to hedge-fund-owned media group
The paper’s sale to an Alden Global Capital subsidiary caught staffers — and management — off guard. Employees know what’s ahead: staff reductions.
Business Outsider? Strike publications offer a glimpse of worker-owned media
Amid a resurgence of union activism within digital media companies, striking workers at Business Insider and the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette are starting their own publications to showcase their value.
Study Hall isn’t like other media outlets. Unless?
Study Hall has positioned itself as not only outside of the mainstream news ecosystem, but often in direct opposition to it. New ownership says it won’t change that and wants freelancers to hold them to their promises.
‘There’s just no really good answers’: The LA Times struggles to explain mass layoffs
“Nothing seems strong anymore. The foundation does not feel sturdy.”
Diversity win? Autostraddle isn’t living up to its values.
A coalition of writers have expressed concerns over the lack of transparency from the major queer publication.
The WGA strike is an opportunity for journalists to show solidarity
The same issues pushing writers to strike are reflected in the same precarity journalists face.
