Articles

‘It Looks Like the Third World’

Writing in Southeast Asia, an American journalist comments on reporters’ use of this descriptive phrase in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

How Participatory Journalism Works

A journalist describes why and how ‘a news organization works with its audience to have that “conversation” that is news.’

‘Early Signs’: A Journalism Class Project at Berkeley

One Sunday in August 2004, as I set down The New York Times Book Review, it suddenly occurred to me that there was sufficient evidence to explore one of the…

Accepting Global Warming as Fact

‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’

Global Warming: What’s Known vs. What’s Told

‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’

When the Internet Reveals a Story

‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’

Weight-of-Evidence Reporting: What Is It? Why Use It?

Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’

Journalism as a Conversation

‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’

The Disconnect of News Reporting From Scientific Evidence

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’

With Citizens’ Visual News Coverage Standards Don’t Change

‘In an era in which digital alteration of images is increasingly easy, credibility is everything.’