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An Open Letter to Troy Closson, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Northwestern

An Open Letter to Troy Closson, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Northwestern

Veteran journalists need voices like yours to expose our tradition bias
Journalists-Turned-Entrepreneurs on How They Built Their Businesses

Journalists-Turned-Entrepreneurs on How They Built Their Businesses

A look at the challenges and opportunities for prospective media entrepreneurs
We Need More Veterans in America’s Newsrooms

We Need More Veterans in America’s Newsrooms

Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has been in a perpetual state of fighting, in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. About 7,000 American troops…
One Truth at a Time

One Truth at a Time

My mom, like most Indigenous women of her time, didn’t really value Western education. It was my dad, an Italian son of immigrants, who pushed me to go to university.…
Reporting the Climate Crisis through (Really) Slow Journalism

Reporting the Climate Crisis through (Really) Slow Journalism

A new time-lapse documentary will chronicle four communities on the front lines of the climate crisis every five years until 2050
Gina McCarthy’s Advice to Climate Journalists: “Talk about Solutions and Build Hope”

Gina McCarthy’s Advice to Climate Journalists: “Talk about Solutions and Build Hope”

Even when news was breaking about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, climate change was generating 18 million interactions on social media—more than guns, immigration, and the economy. So, what…
Five Tips for Better Coverage of the Climate Crisis

Five Tips for Better Coverage of the Climate Crisis

Focus on relevance to everyday life, include all beats, emphasize potential solutions, highlight the visual, make it local
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on the Meticulous Reporting and Hard-Earned Trust Behind the Harvey Weinstein Investigation

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on the Meticulous Reporting and Hard-Earned Trust Behind the Harvey Weinstein Investigation

In the fall of 2017 The New York Times published Jodi Kantor’s and Megan Twohey’s explosive investigation into the sexual harassment and abuse allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein. During…
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shootings: Avoid “Anniversary” and “Tragedy” and Don’t Name the Shooter

The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shootings: Avoid “Anniversary” and “Tragedy” and Don’t Name the Shooter

We simply wanted to get everyone around one table.Dreading the one-year commemoration of the synagogues shootings in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on October 27, one of the congregation leaders said…
The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

Faced with new levels of political pressure and physical threat, Hong Kong’s independent news outlets respond with intrepid reporting and innovative fundraising