Features
Journalists-Turned-Entrepreneurs on How They Built Their Businesses
Graduation was approaching, and Northwestern University journalism student Stephanie Choporis faced a tough job market where her choices were few. Read more
Recent Stories
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Teju Cole on What Needs to Change to Better Cover Stories in “Foreign” Countries
The writer discusses the responsibility that comes with freedom, the “othering” of people in other countries, and “crimes committed by us in the collective”
Opinion: Ethics
An Open Letter to Troy Closson, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Northwestern
Veteran journalists need voices like yours to expose our tradition bias
Opinion
We Need More Veterans in America’s Newsrooms
The new nonprofit Military Veterans in Journalism wants to bring more military knowledge and experience into the media
Reporting the Climate Crisis through (Really) Slow Journalism
A new time-lapse documentary will chronicle four communities on the front lines of the climate crisis every five years until 2050
Gina McCarthy’s Advice to Climate Journalists: “Talk about Solutions and Build Hope”
The former EPA director on how to make climate journalism “relevant, personal, and actionable”
Five Tips for Better Coverage of the Climate Crisis
Focus on relevance to everyday life, include all beats, emphasize potential solutions, highlight the visual, make it local
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Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on the Meticulous Reporting and Hard-Earned Trust Behind the Harvey Weinstein Investigation
The New York Times reporters discuss gaining sources’ trust, journalism versus activism, and the limits of #MeToo journalism
Opinion
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shootings: Avoid “Anniversary” and “Tragedy” and Don’t Name the Shooter
Members of the Pittsburgh community offer advice to journalists covering commemorations of the 2018 anti-Semitic attack
