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Here are some films and short documentaries about local news

Get your popcorn ready

May 13, 2021

5 reasons to be a little bit optimistic about local news

Things are still bad for a lot of newspapers, but...

May 6, 2021

How journalists in Minnesota covered a story that shook the world

“These are our neighbors.”

April 22, 2021

We love the flexibility of working from home. We miss the humans.

And we will miss stretchy pants when this is all over.

April 8, 2021

How The Cincinnati Enquirer captured the big picture one day at a time in 2020

A narrative and documentary published late last year

April 1, 2021

How to amplify the voices we need the most

A new Poynter newsletter is by and for journalists of color

March 25, 2021

It’s been almost a year since we worked together.

We're missing coffee, eye contact, office pizza, other humans...

March 11, 2021

Innovation isn’t just about tech and other lessons from journalists in mid-America

Here are some of the themes from an oral history project documenting local newsrooms during the pandemic

March 4, 2021

How S. Mitra Kalita went from leading coverage of the world at CNN to connecting her neighbors in Queens

‘It felt like the 20-block-radius around your house never mattered more’

February 25, 2021

Journalists around the country are doing their damn jobs. You might be one of them. Thank you.

Yesterday, as I gathered a Twitter list of journalists in D.C. and messaged with a…

January 7, 2021

This local journalist spent most of 2020 unemployed. Here’s how he made it through.

Enrique Limón went from leading local news to covering it to a brand new gig

December 17, 2020

After 40 years writing about food, this editor retires next week

The Star Tribune’s Lee Dean has seen a lot of changes in local food journalism during her career

October 29, 2020

This Texas newsroom has a new Indigenous affairs reporter who never planned to work for mainstream news

The Texas Observer does fearless work, said Pauly Denetclaw, who started in September

October 22, 2020

Here are even more books by journalists you should read

Let the doomscrolling stop.

October 15, 2020

This Portland photojournalist found a little hope in the haze

Amid coverage of fires and protests, Beth Nakamura discovered a bit of fairy tale magic in a catastrophe

October 1, 2020

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