Piled Higher and Deeper in Journalism

On a typical day I wake up, look through my closet and try to select an outfit that looks good but also won’t make me look like a “thug." If I dress a little nicer, I think, maybe today people won’t avoid me on the street today or clutch their purses...

For years, organizations like VIDA and the Women’s Media Center have done a great job of documenting the egregious gender byline gap and lack of representation of women in the media. WMC’s latest report cites statistic from the Media and Gender Monitor that in 2011, women were the focus...

Superpacks. Drones. Gerrymandering. Dark Money. How do you quickly illustrate these concepts in a way that is meaningful and impactful to an audience of different education levels and cultural backgrounds? That was the challenge set out before a group of 60 volunteers at an Iconathon...

— Economist Zachary Karabell, on the unstoppable growth of online learning My sentiments exactly (via sasquatchmedia)