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Returning to a contextual focus

“There is no future in the programmatic display market for publishers. It’s a path to nowhere.” Thomas Baekdal

Historical context will improve local journalism

“If historical context about racial discrimination is on the checklist for every story journalists pursue, it will change how we write about labor, education, health care, transportation, crime, technology, and the environment.” Matt DeRienzo

We’ll keep pummeling people with facts that leave out context

“If we can’t give clear, accurate messages about something as transparent as an infectious disease, what hope do we have for the complexity of climate change?” Kendra Pierre-Louis

Putting community trauma into context

“Trauma is everywhere, even if the communities we serve don’t always use the t-word to describe their experiences.” Marissa Evans

Lisa FazioFebruary 24, 2020

Who needs deepfakes? Simple out-of-context photos can be a powerfully low-tech form of misinformation

A bogus headline seems both more true and more familiar to people when it’s accompanied by a photo of any kind.

Joshua BentonJanuary 16, 2020

Is this video “missing context,” “transformed,” or “edited”? This effort wants to standardize how we categorize visual misinformation

MediaReview wants to turn the mishmash vocabulary around manipulated photos and video into something structured.

Know the context your journalism is operating within

“Media coverage contributes to an ecosystem that harms people and democracies, and we can’t ignore that context any longer.” Laura E. Davis

A call for context

“Proper context will require that news outlets understand the political, economic, historical, and social environments of the places, people, and events that they report on.” Jasmine McNealy

Christine SchmidtOctober 10, 2019

From live blogs to time capsules: How CNN is trying to put its breaking news into context

“We needed a product to push out news faster to a consumer, even if it’s just one to two sentence updates.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 26, 2019

Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it

“When we do a story looking at 18 different commuting routes, we’ve created 18 different stories, in a way — we’ve created a story with 18 distinct audiences.”