The news industry has been talking about diversity for decades, but the talk, many say, often has not been followed by action. “The needles never really seem to move,” says Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter covering racial injustice for The … Read more
Where Are the Women?”—last year’s cover story on the decline of women in senior journalism roles—did not lack for sources. Women were overwhelmingly willing to talk candidly about their careers and frustrations and eager to … Read more
I won’t be sad when another white family moves into the White House. If Hillary Clinton becomes the next president, after a few years, there might be plenty of women looking forward to the day a man retakes the … Read more
When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps on March 24, the deaths of the 150 people on board were initially assumed to be a tragic accident. But within 48 hours, a transcript of the plane’s voice recorder … Read more
The journey to write “Equal Before the Law: How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality” began April 3, 2009, when the Iowa Supreme Court granted gays and lesbians the right to marry in Iowa. It will end June … Read more
For 11 years, I worked somewhere famous. Now, I work somewhere virtually unknown. In January, I left “All Things Considered” (“ATC”)—seven months since my Nieman fellowship ended—to create a position at NPR’s newly rebooted training unit, Editorial Coaching and Development. Read more
Richard Tofel, president of ProPublica since 2013, joined the nonprofit investigative news organization as general manager at its founding in 2007. Two years after it started publishing, ProPublica’s Sheri Fink, in collaboration with The New York Times … Read more
When I hear the “All Things Considered” theme, I hear vegetables sizzling in a pan. I think about being 6 years old and playing with toys at the kitchen table while my mom cooked dinner and caught up with … Read more
When Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, it was easy to assume that the newspaper’s digital content would be getting an update. One of the key people involved in that update has been Cory … Read more
