Jennifer Peters

Ever wondered what to get the journalist in your life? It’s no easy feat, since journalists live on coffee and Election Night pizza and crave little more than truth, justice and the occasional deadline extension. But if you feel up ... Read More

“Collaboration” has become a buzzword in journalism in 2020, but the Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News were thinking about how they could partner up to better serve communities in and around Dallas before everyone else started talking about ... Read More

Last month, the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune launched their expanded News in Education program, which offers free digital access to the Star Tribune to every school district across the state of Minnesota. The program, supported in part by a grant from ... Read More

If you, like your intrepid Alliance reporter here, have been properly social distancing, you’ve likely spent a lot of time with the TV on in the background or binging your comfort film favorites to get you through the past few ... Read More

After eight years of running IJR, Alex Skatell believes that, despite the faster pace of news reporting brought on by the digital age, readers still want and need deep-dive, investigative journalism. To help ensure that journalists continue to have a ... Read More

While impactful news can be many things, we often think of it as being investigative in nature and shining a light into a dark corner that others want kept hidden. For The Nevada Independent, that dark corner involved a questionably ... Read More

It’s long been known that a journalist’s job can have a massive impact on his or her mental and emotional well-being. Acting as a conduit for stories of tragedy and trauma is no easy feat, and numerous studies have found ... Read More

As we enter the second month of social distancing due to COVID-19, many people will be getting cabin fever (if you haven’t already), especially kids. We know it can be difficult with everyone under one roof 24/7, so we’ve rounded ... Read More

In a webinar with the American Press Institute’s Metrics for News team, we discussed which measures of engagement to focus on (hint: not just pageviews) and how to define success. Through a series of 11 lessons on using metrics for ... Read More

A 2018 study found that when communities lose their local newspapers, city finances are dealt a major blow. This is why the work done by the Jackson (Tenn.) Sun is especially important and impactful. A series of investigative news stories ... Read More

Some people may think of local news as foreign or irrelevant to them if they don’t live in the publication’s main coverage area. But local news can be global news, and The Oregonian’s “No Mercy” is the ultimate proof ... Read More

When we think of how news impacts our lives, we often think of information: We learn about road closures, legislation that will affect our community, or even residents of interest who we want to know more about. But sometimes, lightning ... Read More

News stories don’t have to be deep, investigative reports or articles that create legislative change to make an impact. It’s true that communities need watchdogs, but impact can be created by stories of all kinds, from notices of local road ... Read More

In Newton, Kansas, less than 3 percent of teachers are non-white, while the student body is 38 percent non-white. For reporters at The Newton Kansan, this discrepancy is an essential story for their community – and one they believe every ... Read More

On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School suffered a tragedy unlike anything most people had experienced at that time. What happened in that small Colorado town reverberated across the country and around the globe, making people everywhere stop and pay ... Read More

Challenging authority to ensure an informed and engaged citizenry is the bedrock of the journalistic profession. For Sidney Herald editor Amy Efta, that task came all too soon after taking her position at the local Montana newspaper ... Read More

When Detroit Tigers pitcher Matt Boyd and his wife Ashley started a charity, Kingdom House, to help young girls in Uganda avoid sex slavery, it was news. But the Detroit Free Press story about the Boyds’ efforts overseas did more ... Read More

Golddigger stadium had been a landmark in Idaho Springs since 1958, also being recognized nationally on the high school football stage. When Michael Hicks, executive editor for Evergreen Newspapers and the local newspaper, the Clear Creek Courant, learned the stadium ... Read More

In 2017, a nearly 20-year-old DNA kit was finally tested for a 1997 rape. James Clay was arrested, tried and convicted of the crime and sentenced to 25-50 years in prison. But Detroit Free Press journalist Elisha Anderson’s reporting on ... Read More

Did you miss our webinar on January 21, 2020? Do you want to learn about the News Impact Project and how you can start tracking impact in your newsroom? Here you'll find video of the webinar, all the slides presented, ... Read More

“A new subscriber called to tell us that she subscribed because of this story,” Joellen Easton, audience director for the Bangor Daily News, told us when she submitted this story to the News Impact Project. That’s the kind of reaction ... Read More

Sometimes in this business, it can feel like we’re reading bad news every day. From dealing with the duopoly to tackling trust, it’s not easy to be part of the news industry. But as we approach Thanksgiving, we thought we’d ... Read More

There's plenty of crazy news about the news media industry to give us all a little fright now and then. But there's also a lot of great news about news! To give you a good scare this Halloween, we've rounded ... Read More

On September 23, free-press advocates from the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Reporters Without Borders, along with more than 100 volunteers (including myself), canvassed Capitol Hill to ask legislators to support efforts to free American journalist Austin Tice, who ... Read More

Facebook has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against it after it overstated average viewing time for videos on the platform. The suit alleged that because Facebook discarded data for any views lasting three seconds or less, they were able ... Read More

We’ve seen podcasts tackling everything from breaking daily news to in-depth dialogue concerning historic issues to light and fresh takes on newsworthy topics. But no one can keep up with every new podcast that pops up. I’ve rounded up some ... Read More

Today, we look back at the news that changed our world — and how the world changed our news — nearly two decades ago, on September 11, 2001 ... Read More

Love doesn’t always seem like a topic that’s terribly newsworthy, but some of the best feature stories are about love. Heck, a whole movie was made about the joy some people get from reading newspaper wedding announcements (27 Dresses, anyone?) ... Read More

To help all the newsroom managers out there, whether new to the role or just in need of some new tips and tricks, we’ve compiled a list of blogs, podcasts and management thought leaders that can help you with everything ... Read More

2018 was a year of serious fact-checks and cries of fake news. Did you survive with all your facts intact? Take our quiz to see if you can spot the truth amongst the lies in this collection of wild headlines ... Read More

As we head into the new year, we wanted to look back at some of the interesting things we learned in 2018. Over the course of the year, we've shared dozens of articles with you, from profiles of our young ... Read More

As winter approaches, it’s the perfect time to indulge in some novels about journalists whose lives are exactly as wild and crazy as we all imagined ours would be. Once you’ve met your deadlines for the day, curl up with ... Read More

Everyone knows the most famous movie line from a film about journalism — "Rosebud!" But there have been so many great movies and TV shows about the profession. Take our quiz to find out if you can guess the movies and ... Read More

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we wanted to share some of the good news about the news media industry — some facts and figures we can all be thankful for. Among the items bringing us some early holiday cheer ... Read More

For most Americans, reporting by journalists embedded in war zones with our troops is the primary way we learn about our military men and women and the issues and challenges of serving in the armed forces. We’ve rounded up 10 ... Read More

Journalists have been embedding — or traveling alongside — military service members for decades in order to get the best coverage of their country's wars. But being in the midst of a war isn't easy — especially if you don't ... Read More

America is in its 17th year of the Global War on Terror – its longest war. But it’s easy to miss the news coverage when we live in a nonstop 24/7 news cycle. Thankfully, journalists have not forgotten about the ... Read More

When The New York Times originally launched its military blog, At War, in 2008, it was a novel approach to coverage of wars that had been raging since 2001 and were already being forgotten by the public at large. It ... Read More

When thinking about Thanksgiving, many things may come to mind, including Black Friday. Most American families will spend the week before the holiday reading newspaper ad inserts that promote the big sales and noting all the best bargains to scoop ... Read More

You may already know that the news media audience is well informed — they do, after all, keep up with the news. But did you know they're also politically engaged? 86 percent of the news media audience — or 122 ... Read More

We’ve talked before about how to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get better information for your beats, but now that you have all that information, what happens next? That’s where Logikcull comes in, an automated document search ... Read More

As midterm elections approach in the U.S., fake news producers have been sharing more and more stories that paint one side or the other as bad actors. Sometimes, those stories can seem so plausible that even the savviest of news ... Read More

While student journalists may not be facing the exact same threats as their adult counterparts, there are serious threats to the student press, and the current anti-press environment has only made things worse. But luckily for students across America, the ... Read More

When you think of audio news, one of three things probably comes to mind: radio, podcasts or headlines read via smart speaker. But some news outlets are trying something new — audio articles. Audio articles are recordings of single stories ... Read More