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"Almost Everyone, On Every Beat, Becomes an Immigration Reporter at Some Point"

“Almost Everyone, On Every Beat, Becomes an Immigration Reporter at Some Point”

Robert Snell, an investigative reporter for The Detroit News, was in a Detroit federal courthouse reviewing court records for another story when he came across an unsealed affidavit. It was for…
December 6, 2017
Glenn Jeffers
Is It Ethical for Journalists to Ask Trump Pointedly Provocative Questions?

Is It Ethical for Journalists to Ask Trump Pointedly Provocative Questions?

When President Donald Trump responded to the news of a new and advanced ballistic missile test by North Korea on November 28, he used what was, for him, relatively restrained…
December 4, 2017
Mark Jurkowitz
The New York Times and Why White Supremacy Isn’t News

The New York Times and Why White Supremacy Isn’t News

A much-discussed Nazi-next-door piece in The New York Times went wrong for one reason: It treated the reporter’s discovery of the normalcy of white supremacy as news.There is nothing new…
November 29, 2017
Issac J. Bailey
When Women Stand Up Against Harassers in the Newsroom

When Women Stand Up Against Harassers in the Newsroom

I was a kid, really—24 or 25—walking up Chicago’s Michigan Avenue on my way to the bus when a man twice my age blocked my path. He was dressed in the…
November 28, 2017
Ann Marie Lipinski
Frederik Obermaier: “I think one outcome of leaks like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers is that nobody can feel safe anymore in tax havens”

Frederik Obermaier: “I think one outcome of leaks like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers is that nobody can feel safe anymore in tax havens”

In early November, close to 400 journalists in nearly 70 countries published dozens of stories about the offshore financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations.…
November 21, 2017
Reporting the Untold Stories of Rural India

Reporting the Untold Stories of Rural India

Saud Ur Rehman had been standing in line at the bank for eight hours before he called his wife and cousin, complaining of chest pains. It was the third consecutive…
November 20, 2017
Shalini Singh
A PARI mentor finds an opportunity to teach—and to learn

A PARI mentor finds an opportunity to teach—and to learn

Storytelling is a two-way street at PARI, with professional journalists mentoring locals with no background in reporting. This summer I mentored a PARI fellow, Stanzin Saldon, a Buddhist woman of…
November 20, 2017
Shalini Singh
“Fixing” the Journalist-Fixer Relationship

“Fixing” the Journalist-Fixer Relationship

A new study explores the divisions between fixers and correspondents, as the Global Reporting Centre examines alternate models of doing foreign reporting
November 15, 2017
Peter W. Klein
8 reporters reflect on the challenges of covering sexual harassment

8 reporters reflect on the challenges of covering sexual harassment

[sidebar style=”right” head=”Cover Story” deck=””]The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat?When Women Stand Up Against Harassers in the Newsroom[/sidebar]Journalists who break stories about powerful men who have sexually…
November 13, 2017
The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat?

The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat?

A good place to start telling the unfolding story of sexual harassment in newsrooms is July 6th, 2016. That’s the day former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued Roger Ailes,…
November 13, 2017
Katherine Goldstein