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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”

The former EPA director on how to make climate journalism “relevant, personal, and actionable”
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

The New York Times reporters discuss gaining sources’ trust, journalism versus activism, and the limits of #MeToo journalism
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
When Covering the 2020 Election Put Community, Not Competition, First

When Covering the 2020 Election Put Community, Not Competition, First

The chance to oust President Trump or support him in the 2020 general election will bring voters to the polls. But what happens once they get past that first contest…
Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism

Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism

The literary journalism movement unleashed by Capote, Didion, Mailer and Wolfe in the 1960s is reinventing itself in a remarkably powerful way
We Must Collaborate to Restore Accountability in our State Capitals

We Must Collaborate to Restore Accountability in our State Capitals

There’s nothing short of a crisis in our state capitals.Statehouse reporting corps have decreased dramatically in the past decade, and, too often, the journalists who remain must answer the call…