Greg Hedgepeth is president and CEO of Substantial Media LLC, a Black-owned and operated online subscription-based platform that promotes the "substantial lifestyle" as a way to inspire and uplift its Black audience. Better News recently published a repor

The LGBTQ+ community is once again in the crosshairs of the political debate in the U.S. John Casey, senior editor at the Advocate, discusses how journalists could be doing a better job of covering LGBTQ+ issues. Visit the It's All Journalism website to f

In his documentary Reimagining Safety, Matthew Solomon explores the false premise that more police and more prisons makes us safer. He also provides practical and actionable solutions toward achieving systems of safety that work for everyone. Visit the It

Julie Christie, director of data and special projects at Resolve Philly, discusses how her newsroom partnered with Chicago's City Bureau Documenters Network to recruit, train and pay Philadelphians to attend and take notes at public meetings across the ci

Peabody Award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman talks about founding The Trust Project and how the nonprofit global consortium of news organizations is tackling the crisis of trust and misinformation in the media industry. Visit the It's All Journalism web

Carmen Gentile, founder and editor at large of Postindustrial, explains how the independent, journalism-first, multimedia news outlet covers the areas in the United States that were once deemed highly industrialized. While some communities continue to str

Evan Benn, senior director of special projects and communications at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Emily Babay, coverage editor on the Inquirers Now Team, discuss the Up for Review, policy in which the paper reexamines stories that caused significant

TheAmerican Press Instituterecently hosted a panel discussion with alumni from the Tables Stakes Local News Transformation Program about how journalists can build trust with rural communities.Joy Mayer ofTrusting Newsmoderated the panel, which inclu

The Assembly,a digital magazineabout the people, institutions, and ideas that shape North Carolina, recently partnered with The Food Section, anewsletter on the Substack platform that covers food and drinkin the American South. Kyle Villemain and Hann

David Cohn, senior director of theAlphaGroup tech/media incubatorand the co-founder and chief strategy officer ofSubtext, says artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT won't be taking journalists jobs, at least not anytime soon. But there are stil