--- title: Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians description: Journalists can learn a lot from librarians, can a corporation have a soul and more. canonical: https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-26T16:00:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:23.438Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Journalists can learn a lot from librarians.**](http://www.cjr.org/innovations/librarians%5Fjournalism%5Flessons.php) By Louise Lief in the Columbia Journalism Review **2\.** [**Can a corporation have a soul?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/can-a-corporation-have-a-soul-dorff/504173/) By Michael B. Dorff in the Atlantic **3\.** [**With patience running thin, China should recalibrate its policy toward North Korea.**](http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2016/10/12/china-recalibrate-policies-north-korea/) By Mark (Won Min) Seo at the Foreign Policy Association **4\.** [**Soon, you can buy your produce direct from the farm — inside a Target.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/target-debut-vertical-farms-2016-9) By Dana Varinsky in Business Insider **5\.** [**Can a soap opera help stop female genital mutilation?**](https://broadly.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/how-a-humble-soap-opera-could-help-stop-female-genital-mutilation) By Elizabeth Beattie in Broadly  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/"},"headline":"Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians","datePublished":"2016-10-26T16:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:23.438Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/","keywords":["Innovation","Target","China","Journalism","Corporations"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4546027/journalists-can-learn-a-lot-from-librarians/","name":"Journalists Can Learn a Lot From Librarians"}}]}] ```