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Adding ‘Far-Flungs’ to a New Kind of Reporting Partnership

An investigative story tests a new model of foreign news reporting—and leaves a lot of valuable lessons in its wake.

Even in Digital Age, ‘Being There’ Still Matters In Foreign Reporting

‘The textile workers’ strike was into its 19th day, and it appeared that we were the first journalists to arrive.’

Creating a Go-To Digital Destination for Foreign Affairs Reporting and Commentary

 ‘At the start of our Web relaunch, here’s what we had: essentially no money, no reporters, a creaky and often barely functioning custom-made Web platform, a wonderfully talented young staff…

The Gambia: A Dictator’s Anti-Media War

This month marks the sixteenth anniversary of the military takeover in The Gambia, in which President Yahya Jammeh ascended to power via coup d’état. A former wrestler and soldier, Jammeh…

Apple’s iPad Meets Hamlet’s Blackberry

History teaches that ‘long-established media technologies, when faced with the prospect of commercial extinction, counter with their own dialectic.’

Diana Connolly

Adapt. This is the power behind the human brain. Humans have natural instincts to adapt to their surroundings. Their temptation to always receive more and more causes humans to create…

The Future of News: What Ninth-Grade Students Think

RELATED ARTICLES“Journalism: English for the 21st Century”– Esther Wojcicki“E-Textbooks to iPads: Do Teenagers Use Them?”– Esther WojcickiEsther Wojcicki’s ninth-grade students at Palo Alto High School, most of whom are 14…

News-Focused Game Playing: Is It a Good Way to Engage People in an Issue?

‘Ultimately our challenge will be to determine which metrics for successful storytelling turn out to be most important in the digital environment.’

Video Games: What They Can Teach Us About Audience Engagement

‘… we learn differently from content-driven media than we do from media driven by choice and problem solving.’

The Tablet’s Mobile Multimedia Revolution: A Reality Check

‘In my opinion, tablets, like the Internet in the past, are fantastic opportunities, not just devices on which to perform the same old tricks.’