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Is Solutions Journalism the Solution?
Journalists make careers out of covering the symptoms and causes of bad urban public schools, writing tragedies about students falling through the cracks, scoring scoops from school board...
View ArticlePublic Radio and the Sound of America
When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent of...
View ArticleWhy Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race
It’s tough to turn on a TV news report, pick up a newspaper or surf across a news website these days without seeing a story at least partially affected by race. A report from the U.S. Department of...
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How Netflix Flipped the Script on Television’s Disruption
Media columnist Michael Wolff, who regularly excoriates the media’s reporting on itself, has turned his acerbic attention to TV. The death of television, he argues in his new book, has been greatly...
View ArticleAsking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life
This happened in a roundabout sort of way. I had spent time with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, but many journalists did far more embeds and saw far more fighting. Most of my reporting...
View ArticleWhat APIs Can Do for News
“It was a success in every dimension except the one we thought it would be.” That’s Daniel Jacobson’s tweet-length summary of his experience, in 2008, opening up a hefty selection of NPR’s vast...
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Architecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?
Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, is used to generating controversy with his reviews. Yet the Donald Trump outburst that followed Kamin’s critique of...
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How to Deter Doxxing
Last November, Anna Merlan got an unexpected e-mail from Domino’s Pizza. The pizzas she ordered were ready, and she could pay for them in cash when they were delivered. The problem was, she hadn’t...
View ArticleMargie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that...
So often, journalists are quick to dismiss stories that have been done before, especially those that have been written over and over again. But what if you could take a subject everyone has known about...
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Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”
He’s written thousands of articles for The New York Times, produced dozens of documentaries for PBS, and written seven books, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith says his latest venture...
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Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt
One day last May, Egyptian private television station TEN broadcast an interview with Justice Minister Mahfouz Saber in which he expressed the opinion that a law graduate whose father was a garbage...
View ArticleWith his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy
after 15 years of assignments in war zones around the globe, I’ve found that the hopes, dreams, and nightmares of enemies are often more similar than they are different. This is the story I need to...
View ArticleNPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the...
In the summers during college, I drove taxis in Philadelphia. All sorts of people opened up in the anonymity of a cab. Three decades later, while covering China for NPR, I felt my stories lacked a...
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The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information
Paul Salopek had been writing international stories for more than 20 years before he decided to slow down. “I was a conventional foreign correspondent zipping around the world doing fireman stories,”...
View ArticleMedium’s Evan Hansen: “The Real Unit of Exchange Is … People”
Evan Hansen is head of content labs at Medium, the online publisher created by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2012. Previously, Hansen was editor in chief of Wired.com for eight...
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Why News Outlets Are Watching India’s Next Billion Internet Users
Every morning, Mr. and Mrs. Singh gently shoo their dog away from the freshly delivered copies of The Times of India and the Hindustan Times, two of India’s oldest and most popular English-language...
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How Radio Reporters Turn Ideas into Feelings
Spending hours sitting alone at a drawing table, cartoonist Jessica Abel often listens to public radio, a habit that turned her into a devotee. Abel calls radio “the most fertile ground for narrative...
View ArticleIn China, Legal Affairs Reporting Is Not Just a Beat
As a legal reporter in China for the past six years, I have spent a lot of time in courthouses. Judges almost always bar reporters from sitting in courtrooms and policemen frequently shoo us away from...
View ArticleA Brief Guide to Robot Reporting Tools
Transparency is pointless if no one is watching, but there’s no way a human reporter can keep up with the open data created by a modern city, let alone a country. Software agents, sometimes called...
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Automation in the Newsroom
Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press, has been covering business since the mid-1990s. Before joining the AP, she worked as a business reporter for both local newspapers...
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