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Paying Attention to Word Choice When Writing about Addiction

You don’t have to go too far back in time to find the word “junkie” used to refer to someone who injects heroin, even by outlets that steer clear of…
Turning the Focus from Opioid Addiction to Treatment and Recovery

Turning the Focus from Opioid Addiction to Treatment and Recovery

These days, you’d be hard-pressed to open a news app, turn on the TV, or check your social media feeds without coming across a story about how the opioid epidemic…
“As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever”

“As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever”

Photographer Graham MacIndoePhotographer Graham MacIndoe left his native Scotland in 1992 to make it in New York. He worked for outlets such as The New York Times Magazine and The…
Don’t Shy Away from Dealing Forthrightly with Race

Don’t Shy Away from Dealing Forthrightly with Race

An associate of Erica Garner created a firestorm by doing something editors and producers do every day: use race to help decide who gets to tell an important story. It’s…
The Race Beat, Revisited

The Race Beat, Revisited

Shereen Marisol Meraji kicked off an episode of “Code Switch,” a podcast taglined “Race and Identity Remixed,” with a confession: “My mom’s Puerto Rican; my dad’s Iranian. And I, too, suffer from…
4 Steps to Bring Ethical Clarity to Native Advertising

4 Steps to Bring Ethical Clarity to Native Advertising

While 2017 was the year native advertising grew up as a stable revenue source for news, 2018 should be the year the journalism industry establishes clear ethical standards for sponsored…
Five Tools to Rebuild Trust in Media

Five Tools to Rebuild Trust in Media

Social media platforms used to be a place to discover interesting people far away, to get hints of breaking news, to connect with your audience, and even a tool for…
Evaluating the ‘Trump Effect’ in Economics Coverage

Evaluating the ‘Trump Effect’ in Economics Coverage

Two things keep happening and probably will continue in 2018: News outlets will continue producing in-depth Trumpland stories; critics will keep slamming them for it. Some of that criticism is…
Digging Behind the Jobs Numbers: Amy Goldstein, NF ’05, finds synergies between her beat and her book

Digging Behind the Jobs Numbers: Amy Goldstein, NF ’05, finds synergies between her beat and her book

In October 2015, I found myself in a neon blue rental car in Janesville, Wisconsin, driving slowly every several hours past a red brick Georgian revival in a historic district…
The Case for Skyline Watchdogs: Architectural Criticism and Political Acts

The Case for Skyline Watchdogs: Architectural Criticism and Political Acts

In a recent Yale University lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin (NF ’13) explored a fraught issue many arts critics and their editors face in today’s polarized…