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The assignment was simple: find out what energy companies knew about climate change, and when they knew it. InsideClimate News (ICN) reporter Neela Banerjee was initially skeptical they’d find any…

The very first time I viewed a William H. Johnson painting, the work moved me so deeply, I immediately declared him my favorite artist.I was barely a teenager. I didn’t…

While on assignment in Somalia a few years back, I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the Mogadishu mayor’s office alongside a dozen Somali men—some in white robes,…

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in October 2013, I entered a conference hall at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge to attend a roundtable that was part of the Nieman Foundation’s…

As the violence unfolded in Charlottesville over the weekend, many journalists scrambled, trying not to explain just the violent clashes but identify the participants and detail the white nationalist movement.…

An “AP Explains” piece illustrates just how difficult it is to get racial nuance right in the Trump era, even when journalists set out to bring much needed context to…

The first tactic the people hoarding money, power, and secrets will try is to befriend you. You join their side; they join yours. Everyone benefits. Perhaps you gain a new…

Read in English. Es extraño cómo mi vida y la de muchos periodistas mexicanos ha sido trastocada desde que en nuestro país comenzó la mal llamada “guerra contra las drogas”, y…

Translated by Dick Cluster. Leer en español.It’s strange how severely shaken my way of life and that of many Mexican journalists has been since the declaration of the poorly named “war…

Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources, fertile land, and the largest oil reserves in the world—more than Saudi Arabia. Once a regional powerhouse and preferred destination for tourists,…