Articles

‘Being local these days is not just being a one-way flow of information.’

‘When high-tech’s central institutions blew up, people asked many of the same questions I hear asked by journalists today.’

These sites ‘provide a depth of coverage of microscopic issues and events that thinly stretched traditional newsrooms simply can’t get to.’

After working as Central Command’s spokesman for the war in Iraq, Josh Rushing became a reporter for Al Jazeera and writes about his transformative journey.

‘The currency common to these assignments was the thread of local connections stretching from Indiana to overseas and back in news stories we broadcast.’

New media—and new ‘newsroom’ arrangements—combine to make local coverage of environmental issues compelling and personal.

‘… we need to demonstrate in our pages and on our Web site that local journalism does not mean insular, shallow content.’

‘… stories conveyed a definite point of view, and the voice we used shared our perspective throughout their telling.’

A trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in a journalist’s determination to find ways to report on the devastation she now knows exists.

Two brothers photographed life in a working-class neighborhood and found ‘kinship and camaraderie.’