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Articles by Zachary M. Seward

Zachary M. Seward is an outreach editor at The Wall Street Journal and a former assistant editor of the Nieman Journalism Lab. Before working at the Lab, he covered education, health, and investment fraud for the Journal and the media industry for Forbes.com. His reporting has been honored by the Education Writers Association, Improper Bostonian and, while a student at Harvard College, Newsweek’s Current Project for Student Journalism. Email: zseward@niemanlab.org
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Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project
December 3, 2009
Feinstein and Durbin seeking to narrow shield law’s scope
November 20, 2009
How Steve Brill has adjusted his pay-for-news pitch
November 18, 2009
The once-defunct New York Sun is slowly rising
November 14, 2009
Coalition of non-profit news organizations gets funding
November 10, 2009
New public relations: Beating back bad press with Google AdWords
November 9, 2009
NYT’s Keller: “What you can do with less, is less”
November 5, 2009
Google News embraces self-identification of content
November 4, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future
November 2, 2009
Shield law: Definition of a journalist still up for grabs
October 30, 2009
GlobalPost generating revenue of $1 million in first year
October 21, 2009
New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities
October 20, 2009
Bill Keller trying to read the Times “mostly in digital forms”
October 16, 2009
What the NYT’s Bay Area Report looks like in print
October 15, 2009
Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting “chaos”
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