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Articles by Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent 10 years in newspapers, most recently at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from 10 foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He is a big nerd who started blogging when Bill Clinton was still president. (Josh’s Google Profile)
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April 3, 2013
They face many of the same financial challenges as their daily peers — how many alt weeklies can navigate a path to sustainability?
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March 26, 2013
See how your stories are performing — and whether you have bragging rights over your newsroom cubicle-mate.
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March 18, 2013
Sports, weather, and traffic now fill 40 percent of local television news — while crime, politics, and government coverage are all down.
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March 15, 2013
The alt weekly, one of the nation’s best, announced its closure Thursday after nearly 50 years of publishing.
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March 14, 2013
It’s good news for his remarkable project, but also encouraging news for nonprofit news organizations in general.