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Kate Nacy is the first EJO Fellow to participate the European Journalism Fellowship program at the Freie Universität Berlin. Kate Nacy works as a journalist, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in news publications as well as in literary and arts journals. She served as the European Journalism Observatory’s English Web Editor from 2008 – 2012.
June 6, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
A German web magazine has set up a new kind of forum to discuss the media, and is offering grants for innovative young journalists to discover new ways of reporting. For more than a decade, German publishers have consistently downgraded...
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March 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Immigration is topically tempestuous in nations the world over. In Germany, however, the subject is debated with near-Olympic rigor as the struggle to etch out a relationship with foreigners proves to be one of great longevity. Strident...
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March 8, 2013 •
Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
The ways in which we inform ourselves about the world will evolve throughout our lifetimes – this is certain. Yet for nearly eight decades, the primary means of learning about events beyond our (sometimes insular) communities has been...
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February 18, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
According to Bernd Kramer, a journalist for the German daily Tageszeitung (taz), university financing isn’t a particularly hot and contentious topic in the German media. Yet in certain unscrupulous cases, the co-mingling of research and...
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January 28, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Anyone who knows about good stories knows that the best ones are seldom the easy ones. That said, the story of Carta has not been an easy one. Carta is a German multi-author blog dedicated to exploring the interface of media, economics and...
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January 9, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Everyone loves The New Yorker. Or everyone loves talking about loving The New Yorker. Or, more realistically, everyone loves The New Yorker’s single-panel comics, and the rest of the magazine is certainly worth looking into when...
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November 23, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The three-dimensional charm of zines remains relevant in Berlin. Or at least this holds true for the group of hawkers and enthusiasts gathered at Zinefest Berlin, a celebration of DIY publishing. Halley Murray, artist and zine aficionado,...
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September 12, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Contemporary journalists are granted access to a wealth of “tools” – or better – “tool kits,” few of which existed a decade ago. Tools for journalists, which at one point included heirlooms like the now-obsolete pencil...
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January 23, 2012 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
“Shut off the TV when you know more than the anchorman.” Such a recommendation, almost comically obvious, invites the recipient to ponder a number of scenarios in which its application could be rather judicious. In his latest book Slow...
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