Tuesday, September 17, 2019
 | After $2.6M crowdfunding campaign, The Correspondent will have just one full-time journalist in the U.S.The Correspondent is hiring a total of five full-time journalists. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
 | Vox’s new podcast goes where news podcasts haven’t gone before: SundaysPlus: NPR expects Podcast $$ to surpass Broadcast $$ by next year. By Nicholas Quah. |
Cokie Roberts, Pioneering Journalist Who Helped Shape NPR, Dies at 75
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subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast podcast Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75.How Did Lauren Duca’s Revolution Backfire?
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You can't really blame journalist and activist Lauren Duca for being a little nervous about agreeing to an interview. When I first asked to profile her in advance of her new book, How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics, I did it over Twitter DM.Data journalism solves big problems, but it’s an organizational mess. A new tool from the AP aims to fix that. – Poynter
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Data journalism has uncloaked offshore financial havens, caught police breaking the same rules of the road that they're supposed to be enforcing and laid bare how American infrastructure carves out zones of inequality. It often seems like the area of journalism that focuses on numbers, analysis and systemic problems is capable of revealing any issue, global or local, manmade or natural.Meet The Correspondent’s first five journalists!
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Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: today, after nine months of intensive preparation, over 2,000 job applications and dozens of interviews, we're thrilled to introduce The Correspondent's first five correspondents. Starting on 30 September, you'll be able to follow them on our English-language platform, where they'll join forces with our 50,000 members to investigate some of the major themes of our time.Julia Boorstin on Twitter
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The latest in the battle for content- NBCU streaming service launching in April will be called "Peacock" and will include 30 Rock, Cheers, and reboots of Punky Brewster, Saved by the Bell and Battlestar Galactica, in addition to Parks & Rec and The Office @NBCUniversal @CNBC Fuego is our heat-seeking Twitter bot, tracking the stories the future-of-journalism crowd is talking about most. Usually those are about journalism and technology, although sometimes they get distracted by politics, sports, or GIFs. Check out Fuego on the web to get up-to-the-minute news.