How Katrina and BP spill coverage defined NOLA as the two events, in turn, shaped local press July 17, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts A review of Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
The newest tool in teaching about climate change: the weatherman July 2, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts A South Carolina pilot project expands
Story Control July 1, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts A new suite of tools allows the public to parse press coverage
As Congress scolded him, Dr. Oz launched a magazine June 26, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts The Good Life is less inflammatory than the doctor’s television show, but the line between ad and editorial is murky
Narrating climate change June 19, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts Incremental journalism isn’t driving home the dire state of the climate to the public, so researchers and outlets are trying to reach them through a shift in storytelling
The EPA goes on background, and journalists revolt June 12, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts For some reporters, having the call ‘on background’ rather than ‘on the record’ meant that the material was essentially unusable
Chaos at The Wire? May 29, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts Without an editor in chief, The Atlantic‘s army of young aggregators is directionless
New York launches social science vertical May 15, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts "Like a Jehovah’s witness, if you show up at their door and say, ‘Can I interest you in some behavioral economics,’ they’ll say no"
The ‘new feminists’ of Joanna Coles’ Cosmopolitan May 12, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts "We’re not a magazine that tells you to spend $4,000 on a bag"
The king of content May 1, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts How Upworthy aims to alter the Web, and could end up altering the world
