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Tom Levenson introduces Ta-Nehesi Coates and Hendrik Hertzberg , who are in conversation tonight at MIT’s Stata Center on the topic of opinion journalism. The… Read More »Ta-Nehesi Coates and Hendrik Hertzberg at MIT on opinion journalism
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I’m at Code for America’s 2013 summit in San Francisco today, an impressive gathering put together by an extremely impressive civic innovation organization. I’m one… Read More »Jen Pahlka and Clay Shirky at Code for America Summit
It’s the 75th anniversary of the Nieman Foundation, and the Harvard-based program is bringing back generations of its fellows, mid-career journalists brought to Cambridge to… Read More »Saving the News with Advocacy Journalism: ten minutes with the Nieman Foundation