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Here are some excerpts from columns that appear in the book, “Frank del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times:”“A Dissenting Vote on the Endorsement of Pete Wilson,” October 31, 1994… Unfortunately,…

A series of news reports found city agencies ignoring their own regulations and illegally polluting water in Dallas.

Areas on the lakebed that generate dust must be controlled with one of three approved dust-control measures: flooding with shallow sheets of water, establishing native salt-tolerant vegetation, or covering the…

Sebastião Salgado’s photographs ‘represent everything that is meaningful, controversial and difficult about “concerned photography.”’

‘… filmmakers have become a source of alternative explanations for the war in Iraq and the news coverage of it, as well as critics of the administration’s policies.’

‘The imperatives of narrative nonfi ction carried me like a current to the book’s last words.’

‘Like all the great narrative journalists, [Mark] Bowden must be a relentless asker of questions, a painstaking gatherer of minute detail.’

A journalist probes the story of water privatization in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In crunching the numbers, an author argues that investment is necessary to secure a future for news—in newspapers or on the Internet.

Water is the essence of life, and its cleanliness, availability, and our use and abuse of it are stories meriting reporters’ and editors’ attention. Yet as Stuart Leavenworth, who covered…