Bringing together investigative and solutions reporting for a new approach to accountability journalism
Brent Walth and Nicole Dahmen (with John Schrag, executive editor, Pamplin Media Group) What is Universe? Conference, Portland, OR. April 2018
Brent Walth and Nicole Dahmen (with John Schrag, executive editor, Pamplin Media Group) What is Universe? Conference, Portland, OR. April 2018
by Nicole Dahmen (with Jesse Abdenour, UO, Karen McIntyre, VCU) Contextual journalism calls for depth of news reporting rather than “just the facts.” A national survey of local television (TV) journalists indicated the increasing popularity of this more comprehensive reporting…
by Nicole Dahmen (with Jennifer Midberry, Indiana) Newspaper & Online News Division, Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL. August 2017
by Nicole Dahmen (with Jesse Abdenour, UO, Karen McIntyre, VCU, and Krystal Noga-Styron, CWU) Using data from a national survey of US newspaper journalists (N = 1,318), this study examines attitudes toward news coverage of mass shootings. Participants generally agreed that coverage…
Kathryn Thier (chair) International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy. April 2017.
Kathryn Thier (with Holly Wise, Texas State, and Hub Brown, Syracuse) Imagining Tomorrow’s Media: Creativity, Innovation and Monetization, Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV. April 2017
Nicole Dahmen and Kathryn Thier Association of Alternative News Media Digital Conference, Portland, OR. January 2017.
by Nicole Dahmen (with Karen McIntyre, VCU, and Jesse Abdenour, UO) A survey (N = 1,318) evaluated US newspaper journalists’ attitudes toward contextual reporting – stories that go beyond the immediacy of the news and contribute to societal well-being. Results indicated that…
by Kathryn Thier As journalism schools continue to respond to industry disruption, some are adding curricula about practices that reframe traditional journalism. In this article, I examined experiences of some of the first university instructors of solutions journalism—critical reporting on…
A recently labeled genre of journalistic storytelling, termed “restorative narratives,” intends to cover the story beyond the immediacy of the breaking news, and in doing so, to help individuals and communities move forward in the wake of large-impact events. Specifically,…