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Looking for Stories in All the ‘Third Places’

In Detroit, reporters use civic mapping to find new stories and sources.

Civic Mapping Can Ignite a Reporter’s Curiosity

At The San Diego Union-Tribune, community experiences become stories.

Understanding the Community’s Civic Life

Journalists’ tools include new questions and different sources.

These Pictures Are Not About the Photographer

The camera documents humanity behind forgotten façades.

Filling a Void Left By Mainstream Media

Young temporary workers in Silicon Valley write out of their own experience.

Winter 2000: Financing News in the Internet Era Introduction

Figuring out how to make quality online journalism a financially viable proposition is consuming vast amounts of brainpower. The answer, so far: have very deep pockets. Mark Sauter, cofounder of…

Winter 2000: Developing a Global Interactive Dialogue Introduction

By using new technological devices to disassemble millions of computerized records, Chicago Tribune project reporter Mike Berens unearthed patterns of fatal nursing errors and transformed statistics into investigative stories. Brant…

The Web Pulled Viewers Away From the Olympic Games

From Sydney, it was a tale of two technologies, yesterday’s and tomorrow’s.

Coffee and Copy at Asian Internet Cafés

Keeping the keys to the electronic office out of government hands.

Economics 101 of Internet News

Supply expands, but has demand been adequately nurtured?