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Dec 5, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Nikki Usher
This will be the year journalism finally explains arcane legislative rules to the public — for national, state, and local government. Most people find talk of clotures, filibusters, committee votes, bill reconciliation, the legislative calendar, and beyond absolutely boring. If civic-affairs news is the broccoli of American journalism, then coverage of legislative procedure is the unsalted lima bean.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
knightcolumbia.org | Nikki Usher
The answer to the question “What is journalism for?” often turns into a catalog of aspirations.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nikki Usher
By Nikki Usher (with credit to Phil Napoli, Joshua Darr and Mike Miller)Anyone familiar with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) will not be surprised to hear that the traditional model of journalism has imploded, especially at the local level. But there is some new research that may be helpful as nonprofit news organizations continue to make the case for their relevance and importance in shoring up the market failure.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Nikki Usher |Joshua P. Darr |Philip M. Napoli |MICHAEL Miller
Local newspapers have long played a critical role in American public life, far beyond their ability just to keep people informed about their communities and the wider world: they provide a cultural glue to knit strangers together through a shared, common narrative about the place in which they live.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
niemanlab.org | Logan Jaffe |Nikki Usher
In 2024, the heart of local news strategy boils down to the question: Do you care about place, or not? To what I believe are the most exciting and promising new local journalism organizations, the answer to that question is, deeply, yes. That calls for a very different, and I’d argue more challenging, way of doing journalism than nationally-focused organizations with interests in “local.” Authentically local journalism outlets already know this.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
niemanlab.org | Nikki Usher
Take The Breakfast Club or Fast Times at Ridgemont High or High School Musical, or any other Hollywoodized version of high school. Now map this on as a metaphor for local news ecologies. Local TV journalists are the beautiful, popular people in this hierarchy — with local newspapers and local nonprofits some version of the freaks and geeks in the hallway.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
democracyjournal.org | Laura Owen |Mike Rispoli |Lisa Snowden- McCray |Nikki Usher
Democracy has, as is inevitable for a general policy journal, tended to focus on national domestic policy. But democracy is built and fortified at the local and state levels. Local newspapers and media have been decimated in recent years by falling ad revenue and predatory companies gutting newsrooms for a quick dollar. We wanted to focus on green shoots throughout the country, so we assembled a collection of experts working in and studying local news ecosystems.
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May 19, 2023 | 
letraslibres.com | Nikki Usher |Luis Arturo Guichard |Gerardo Fernández Fe
AÑADIR A FAVORITOS Please login to bookmark Nombre de usuario o dirección de correo Contraseña Recuérdame La redacción sonaba a típica verborrea de último minuto para intentar describir los conceptos del curso: las oraciones transmitían, en el mejor de los casos, un entendimiento superficial sobre lo que habíamos hecho este semestre y el argumento respondía vagamente a la pregunta. Era el tipo de ensayo que usualmente me hace preguntarme: ¿Alguna vez vino a clase este alumno? ¿Les he...
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May 4, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Nikki Usher
‘Jesus!’ CNN’s Jim Sciutto Shocked After Woman Tells Him She’s Experienced Four Active Shooter Situations in Less Than Five Years
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May 4, 2023 | 
slate.com | Nikki Usher
The writing sounded like the typical 3 a.m. word-vomit of course concepts—the sentences relaying a superficial understanding at best of what we had done this semester and the argument only vaguely responsive to the prompt. It was the sort of paper that usually makes me wonder: Did this student even come to class? Did I communicate anything of any value to them at all?
