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Articles by Sarah Darville

Sarah Darville is a former writer for the Nieman Journalism Lab. She was a 2013 Google Journalism Fellow. Sarah currently writes for Chalkbeat New York.

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August 9, 2013

Summer Reading 2013: “The Last Editor: How I Saved The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency” by Jim Bellows (2002)

“I thought: Let’s get all the areas we want to keep people informed about, whether it’s food or finances or relationships, and let’s get the best people not only to write a short tip on the subject matter once a week, but also to answer questions from our subscribers.”

August 9, 2013

Summer Reading 2013: “Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press” by Jay Rosen (1996)

“This is what public journalism is saying: getting the connections right is the deeper challenge in journalism right now.”

August 8, 2013

Summer Reading 2013: “News for All: America’s Coming of Age with the Press” by Thomas Leonard (1995)

“What was different was the spectacle of the whole public, not just a few, editing what was published. Also, the editor’s desk did not look the same when the reader sat at it.”

August 6, 2013

Summer Reading 2013: “The Press in Perspective” by Ralph Casey (1963)

“Good enterprising reporting of ideas on basic issues can in many cases be as important as the reporting of action. The decisive point in many great events comes long before the event happens.”

August 5, 2013

Summer Reading 2013: “Late City Edition” by Joseph Herzberg (1947)

“There are those in this dawn of the Buck Rogers era who maintain that the newspaper is on the way to join such institutions as the bustle and the five-cent beer.”

5 things you might like about NewsPad (which made us write this headline this way)

Okay, so this isn’t actually a list. But a new tool is aiming to lower the barriers for community participation in blogging with a little help from BuzzFeed’s format.

July 15, 2013

For public radio and television stations, collaboration around the news proves challenging

Public media invested significant resources into building Local Journalism Centers that could unite multiple stations in reporting on the same topic. The results have been a mixed bag.

July 12, 2013

In the Netherlands, a magazine experiments with “social distribution” (and they don’t mean retweets)

By convincing readers to act as distributors, Works That Work’s print edition is helping the magazine gain global readers and engage others closer to home.

July 2, 2013

Evening Edition looks to build beyond its simple model

The idea of a once-a-day summary of news has obvious appeal for people overwhelmed by streams and feeds. But you’ve also got to get that summary in front of readers.

June 24, 2013

When it comes to digital news trends, a Reuters Institute study says some stereotypes ring true

Brazilians and Americans like to talk about the news online, apparently. Germans and Brits keep to themselves.

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