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How algorithms are helping reporters expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news

From crime statistics to SEC filings, software agents can monitor vast amounts of open data to help journalists spot potential stories

Covering courts in China is perilous, but rule of law is the only option for a better future

In “Out on the Wire,” cartoonist Jessica Abel illustrates the storytelling secrets of the leading narrative radio shows

As Quartz, BuzzFeed, and The Huffington Post look for footholds in India, the bigger opportunity for news may be among the Indians buying smartphones to access information in languages other…

The online publishing platform's head of content labs on optimum story length, writing for free, and how to fix the experience of reading and writing on the Internet

As news cycles speed up, 'slow' journalists take months—even years—to report and tell in-depth stories

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,…

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…

Amidst a challenging political and economic environment, young Egyptian reporters are developing innovative journalism and business models