Articles

Susan Smith Richardson

Susan Smith Richardson

Editor and publisher, The Chicago Reporter

Doing My Own Thing

Iwas 5 or 6 years old when my mother, a great lover of Nigerian folklore, told me a story from one of the oldest tribes in my country. In my…
Margaret Low Smith

Margaret Low Smith

Vice president, The Atlantic; former senior vice president for news, NPR
Behind the Data Curtain

Behind the Data Curtain

In my first reporting job out of college, I traveled across Communist Eastern Europe and wrote travel guidebooks. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I obtained my secret police…
Charlotte Hall

Charlotte Hall

Former editor, senior vice president, Orlando Sentinel
Susan Goldberg

Susan Goldberg

Editor in chief, National Geographic
Julia Turner

Julia Turner

Editor, Slate
Caught in the Crossfire

Caught in the Crossfire

Over the past year, Holly Williams, NF ’08, a correspondent for CBS News, has covered conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine. Earlier this summer she made her first trip to Gaza:On…
Kate O’Brian

Kate O’Brian

President, Al Jazeera America
"Thick Files and a Long Memory"

“Thick Files and a Long Memory”

Henry Constantin was a 22-year-old journalism student at a Cuban university in 2006 when he proposed a thesis critical of the country’s brand of reporting. He was promptly kicked out…