Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
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Benton, Joshua. "Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Mar. 2023. Web. 12 May. 2023.
APA
Benton, J. (2023, Mar. 20). Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/negative-words-in-news-headlines-generate-more-clicks-but-sad-words-are-more-effective-than-angry-or-scary-ones/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 20, 2023. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/negative-words-in-news-headlines-generate-more-clicks-but-sad-words-are-more-effective-than-angry-or-scary-ones/.
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