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The Newsrooms We Need Ms FALL 2020 REPORTS NIEMAN REPORTS NIEMAN REPORTS VOL. 74 NO. 4 The Nİeman Foundatİon for Journalİsm TO PROMOTE AND Harvard Unİversİty ELEVATE THE STANDARDS One Francİs Avenue OF JOURNALISM Cambrİdge, Massachusetts 02138 THE VOL. NO. 74 4 FALL 2020 THE NEWSROOMS NEWSROOMS WE NEED WE NEED THE NEWSROOMS WE NEED THE NEWSROOMS NOW THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AT THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION Dilshad D. Ali Emotions are OK in newsrooms Melissa Bunni Elian Respect means “looking again” Dilshad D. Ali Emotions are OK in newsrooms Melissa Bunni Elian Respect means “looking again” Manolia Charlotin, Cierra Hinton, and Lewis Raven Wallace Make radical changes Manolia Charlotin, Cierra Hinton, and Lewis Raven Wallace Make radical changes Erika Dilday Let communities own the story S. Mitra Kalita First, fix your life Rob KingCommit to constant evolution Erika Dilday Let communities own the story S. Mitra Kalita First, fix your life Rob King Commit to constant evolution Marc Lacey What color is your reader? Doug Mitchell Make your own pipeline Ron Nixon Diversify investigative teams Marc Lacey What color is your reader? Doug Mitchell Make your own pipeline Ron Nixon Diversify investigative teams cover_final_v2.indd 1 9/16/20 1:27 PM Contributors The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University www.niemanreports.org publisher Ann Marie Lipinski editor James Geary senior editor Jan Gardner Christa Case Bryant Tina Vasquez (page 40) editorial specialist (page 4), a 2016 Nieman is a senior reporter at Eryn M. Carlson Fellow, is a national po- Prism where she covers staff assistant litical reporter for The gender justice and workers’ Protesters gather in Shelby Grebbin Christian Science Monitor. rights. She is a movement Brooklyn following the Fall 2020 / Vol. 74 / No. 4 death of George Floyd design She previously served as the journalist with more than 10 Contents Dan Zedek Monitor’s Jerusalem bureau years of experience focusing chief, Middle East editor, on immigration, reproductive editorial offices Features One Francis Avenue, Cambridge, and Europe editor. She has injustice, and culture. She is MA 02138-2098, 617-496-6308, reported from Israel, the from Southeast Los Angeles How to Handle Hacks and Leaks 4 [email protected] West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, and based in North Carolina. THE Journalists need to figure out how to Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, NEWSROOMS Copyright 2020 by the President and Dear Journalism: 20 Respect Means “Looking Again” 31 responsibly report on hack-and-leak Russia, Germany, Estonia, WE Fellows of Harvard College. Do Better If visual journalists privilege conflict over operations like those that marred and South Korea. Periodicals postage paid at Journalists offer their community, we fail in our duties as witness the 2016 election Boston, Massachusetts and additional prescriptions for what the By Melissa Bunni Elian By Christa Case Bryant entries NEED news industry needs to do subscriptions/business to meet the challenges of “The Pipeline 33 Collaboration is the Future 12 617-496-6299, [email protected] this moment Problem” of Journalism NOW By Ann Marie Lipinski Build relationships that will “broaden the To meet the challenges of the coronavirus Subscription $25 a year, look, feel, and sound of your work and pandemic and the racial justice movement, $40 for two years; Let “Others” Tell the Story 22 workplace” By Doug Mitchell the media is becoming more collaborative add $10 per year for foreign airmail. “The only way we can report the ‘truth’ is By Casey Quackenbush Single copies $7.50. Back copies are available from by allowing people to share their stories” The Case for Emotions 34 the Nieman office. By Erika Dilday Fostering more empathetic, honest, and Movement Journalism on the Move 40 grounded newsrooms will produce deeper Movement journalists aim to produce Please address all subscription “Stop Thinking About 26 storytelling By Dilshad D. Ali community-focused, solutions-based correspondence to: A Finish Line” reporting — and challenge the status quo One Francis Avenue, Progress on racial equity starts with Diversify 36 By Tina Vasquez Cambridge, MA 02138-2098 a steadfast commitment to constant Investigative Reporting and change of address information to: P.O. Box 4951, Manchester, NH 03108 Casey Quackenbush Kristin Chick (page 48) newsroom evolution Having a variety of backgrounds on Equal Pay, Equal Work 48 ISSN Number 0028-9817 (page 12) is a New York- is a freelance journalist By Rob King investigative teams is key to accountability Journalists’ pressure to close racial based journalist. Previously, who writes about gender journalism By Ron Nixon and gender pay gaps may be a boon for K TIMES/REDUX K Postmaster: Send address changes to diversity in the newsroom she was a reporter with and migration. Her work What Color is Your Reader? 28 Nieman Reports P.O. Box 4951, This Moment Requires 38 By Kristen Chick Time magazine in Hong has appeared in TIME, Journalists need to remember that not all Manchester, NH 03108 news readers are white By Marc Lacey Radical Imagination Kong. You can find her work the Columbia Journalism We shouldn’t settle for diversity Departments Nieman Reports (USPS #430-650) in The New York Times, Review, The Washington You Need To Fix Your Life 29 committees and revised hiring policies is published in March, June, The Washington Post, Post, The New Republic, September, and December by Before You Can Fix Your Newsroom when it is ground-up, revolutionary Niemans@Work 2 Nieman Reports, Al Jazeera, and the Los Angeles Times. the Nieman Foundation Those trying to change their newsrooms change that we need at Harvard University, Aperture, and elsewhere. A former Middle East cor- first need to take a critical look at their By Manolia Charlotin, Cierra Hinton, and Nieman Notes 54 One Francis Avenue, respondent, she is based in own lives By S. Mitra Kalita Lewis Raven Wallace Cambridge, MA 02138-2098 the U.K. YOR NEW ARREDONDO/THE JUAN Sounding Matthew Dolan 56 cover_final_v2.indd 2 9/18/20 11:29 AM nieman_fall2020_inside_DZ_9.16.indd 1 9/16/20 12:49 PM NiemaNs A Startup Focuses on We’re a bit like Bloomberg — which has @work news and data — but also a bit like a uni- Making a Business out versity library, think tank, or independent of Reporting on China research firm. The goal is to produce great, independent journalism of the highest “Beyond the David Barboza, standards and integrity, and at the same Noise” Provides NF ’16, is turning time, a data platform for businesses and information gathered others eager to learn about China and re- Africa News by trieve information, uncolored by our jour- by his journalists into a nalism or opinions. and for Africans database for companies I realize this is going to be a challenge. Hannane Ferdjani, But that’s part of the reason why I find it so uring much of my time working as exciting. NF ’20, launched her a journalist at The New York Times, Building this startup is allowing me to program to report on I kept asking myself the same think deeply about the question I began question: what do I do with all the with: if data is so valuable, and journalists the pandemic notes and documents I’ve collected are out collecting it every day, organizing Dduring the course of my reporting? And, it, and analyzing it, why do so many jour- roviding better narratives about despite the concerns of our legal counsel, nalists throw the raw material of their Africa — it’s been my journalism the answer was easy for a student of history: Students attend a ceremony to begin the stories away — the notes, audiotapes, quest since I first stumbled my way save them and some day build an archive new semester at a school in Wuhan, China source documents, etc.? Why doesn’t The into the field almost a decade ago. that can help historians and provide the raw New York Times or The Washington Post But as I moved from print to material for today’s investigative reporters. on China — a country that I had covered for value their reporters’ notebooks? Does the Ptelevision, from national to international And now, in an unexpected way, I find 14 years, much of that time as the Times’s value of those digital and paper documents newsrooms, and finally made it back on myself working in Boston, building a small Shanghai bureau chief. (I contributed a large really go to zero once I publish (meaning the continent as a news anchor on a pan- newsroom focused around data, notes, and chunk of my own savings.) we should just throw them out), or is there African news channel, that pursuit became archives — a business project that might not Now, just over a year and a half into valuable material there — the contacts, increasingly crucial, albeit difficult to attain. just help produce deeper news stories but this venture, I’m managing a weekly digital documents, interview notes that can in- How to achieve reporting that speaks also, eventually, finance them. It’s a compa- magazine focused on China’s rise as a global form and deepen future stories, and per- truth to power and unveils injustices ny we are tentatively calling The Wire. and economic power. Within the newsroom haps even seed a future investigation? that vulnerable Africans are suffering The Times encouraged me to explore (which is now virtual, because of Covid-19) The answer, I believe, is yes. from without perpetuating longstanding this idea as a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow we also have an archive and a database that Robert Caro, one of my heroes for stereotypes that mainstream media had in the summer of 2016. Three years later, can be used by our own journalists, but soon, his dogged determination, went from a always fed me about Africa? I left the Times after a group of angel in- also by researchers, scholars, and businesses newsroom to the archives.
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