Author Archive for Jennifer Peters – Page 8
How SheSource Is Helping Women Be Heard
There is a huge imbalance in the number of women’s voices in the media compared to men’s voices. Women, who make up 51 percent of ... Read More
The State of FOIA 2018
Every year, we celebrate Sunshine Week to honor the work of the journalists and private citizens who are utilizing the Freedom of Information Act to ... Read More
Why Women’s Voices Matter In Media
Have you ever been the only woman journalist in the room? Have you ever attended a panel on the future of journalism and realized not ... Read More
How To: Turn Your Phone Into A Mobile Newsroom
When I was freelancing with VICE News, my editor and I were never in the same place. I worked remotely from New York City, while ... Read More
Key Industry Takeaways From Mega-Conference 2018
Last week, publishers from across the country converged at the Key Executives Mega-Conference in San Diego, California, to discuss such issues as how to attract ... Read More
How To: Find Diverse Sources
Finding people to talk to me has always been the hardest part of being a writer. Whether people didn’t want to talk because they didn’t ... Read More
How The Root Is Helping Amplify Black Voices
When it comes to diverse voices, most of us probably only read a few whose reporting fits in with the narrative we’re used to. Online ... Read More
How To: Read and Interpret Data
There’s a stereotype about journalists that I’ve always resented: “Journalists can’t do math.” It was one of the first things my Intro to Journalism professor ... Read More
A Love Letter to Journalism
When I traveled with my family as a child, I would drag my parents to gift shops in every new city, looking for postcards and ... Read More
Conservatives Are Biggest Sharers of Fake News on Social Media, Study Says
As we all know, social media is even more polarized — and polarizing — than the rest of American society. It’s where people go to ... Read More
