With many news companies cutting back on coverage of government, some governments are looking to hire journalists to cover them. Crazy? Maybe not.
In this week’s live chat, I talked with Nick Christensen, the in-house reporter who began work last year creating independent journalism content for Metro, the elected regional government for 1.5 million people in the greater Portland, Ore., area. To find out what he talked about, you can replay the chat below.
Lessons learned from an experiment in building a new journalism project
The Columbia Daily Spectator has expertly documented tense protests over the Israel-Hamas war inside and outside the campus.
The ESPN star explains how she got over her fears (and the trolls) to get better at discussing the sport she loves
Excessive consumption of salt can cause hypertension because of the sodium it contains — not because of glass in the salt
The conversation around Gregg Doyel’s comments to Caitlin Clark failed to address larger, systemic issues that could lead to better journalism
