Articles

With his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy

With 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…
August 17, 2015
Karim Ben Khelifa
Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt

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…
August 7, 2015
Magdi Abdelhadi
Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

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 is among…
July 31, 2015
Eryn Carlson
Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia

Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia

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…
July 22, 2015
Margie Mason
How to Deter Doxxing

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…
July 17, 2015
Rose Eveleth
Architecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?

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 the…
July 16, 2015
Blair Kamin

What 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…
July 13, 2015
David Weinberger
Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Former Time Magazine correspondent Phil Zabriskie, author of the Kindle Single “The Kill Switch,” on why he chose to look at what it means to kill in combat and how…
July 2, 2015
Phil Zabriskie
How Netflix Flipped the Script on Television's Disruption

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…
June 15, 2015
Michael Wolff
Public Radio and the Sound of America

Public 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…
June 11, 2015
Adriana Gallardo