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Thank you Stanford Journalism for the feature and for the education on how to be a multimedia journalist. journalism.stanford.edu/news/how-stanf…

Applications are now open for the 2025-26 Global Health Media Fellowship! Medical students develop expertise in promoting global health equity and fighting medical misinformation. Apply by Jan. 21, 2025. Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health globalhealth.stanford.edu/programs/media…

JSK and three other top #journalism programs will collaborate to support journalists from around the world who face censorship or other repressive actions. buff.ly/4gFDOpO

.BIG LOCAL NEWS worked on a collaborative project with the The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner and multiple other local news organizations about a pervasive & long-running crisis in fatal drug overdoses among Black men born from 1951 to 1970. Project link: nytimes.com/2024/12/20/ups…

Stanford alums, Chloe Shrager (BA 2024) and Hannah Poukish (MA 2024), recently teamed up to report on the impacts of Trump's executive orders around immigration. Could Trump deport undocumented immigrants in SLO County? ‘It’s not safe’ sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-…

Independent Russian journalism plays a critical role in exposing Putin’s regime. Thank you Roman Anin, founder of IStories Media and a former John S. Knight Fellowships Fellow, for speaking with Michael McFaul about the risks and methods used by Russian journalists to investigate authoritarianism.

Thousands of USAID staff have been fired, suspended, or locked out. Now, mission directors are being asked to count who remains. Stanford Journ alum Elissa Miolene investigates the agency's growing uncertainty and possible absorption by the State Dept. buff.ly/416D34c

The policy update incorporate residents of all ages, but it places an emphasis on city staff, recognizing they are particularly vulnerable to mental health struggles. Palo Alto Updates Suicide Prevention Policy to Serve Broader Community peninsulapress.com/2025/02/04/pal…

At this week's McClatchy Symposium, Janine Zacharia spoke with Martin Baron about the Trump Administration's attacks on the press and what can be done. youtube.com/watch?v=-ZnKRt…

SPJ NorCal is recognizing Cheryl Phillips as this year's Beverly Kees Educator Award recipient. As a Stanford Journalism professor and founder of Big Local News, Cheryl is "inspiring the next generation of data and investigative journalists." spjnorcal.org/2025/02/12/spj…

"Communities are better informed and engaged if local journalism thrives," said Cheryl Phillips, founder and co-director of BIG LOCAL NEWS and Stanford Journalism lecturer. biglocalnews.org/content/news/2…

Congratulations to Bhabna Banerjee (MA 2024), who is part of the 2025-2026 New YorkTimes Fellowship class. nytco.com/careers/newsro…

MA students Arundathi Nair (MA 2025) and Hannah Bensen (MA 2025) are finalists for NPR's College Podcast Challenge. Listen to the podcast here: peninsulapress.com/2024/12/16/how…

APRIL 29: Rebele Symposium 2025 - The New(s) Influencers — What Legacy Media and Online News Content Creators Can Learn from Each Other events.stanford.edu/event/2025-reb…

Alum Xavier Martinez (MA 2024) reporting for the Wall Street Journal: "Campus newspapers confront ethics debates as international students try to remove their names and opinions from past articles." wsj.com/us-news/educat…

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Congratulations to the BIG LOCAL NEWS team! "For us, here at Big Local, this is the proof of the premise behind the founding of Big Local News. Sharing data, analysis, and accountability journalistic work will only amplify that work for the good." biglocalnews.org/content/news/2…

These journalism leaders and innovators will pursue individual projects as well as opportunities for collective action that responds to accelerating threats to independent media.

Pulitzer Prize win, Stanford conference show how data-driven collaborations can have impact How data + collaboration drive breakthrough journalism at scale newsatknight.substack.com/p/how-data-col…

Stanford Journalism students, alum among the winners and finalists of SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards Region 11 journalism.stanford.edu/news/stanford-…