Communicating uncertainty to our readers

“After what happened in the presidential election, I think there is going to be a growing interest in how to communicate data better to the public — and in particular how to communicate uncertainty.”

Alberto Cairo is Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami.

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Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

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Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

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Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

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P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Nushin Rashidian   A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions

Richard Tofel   The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

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Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

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Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

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Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

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Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Trushar Barot   API or die

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Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

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Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

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Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

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