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Covering American Muslims—as an American Muslim

Covering American Muslims—as an American Muslim

How journalists, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, can deepen coverage of American Muslim communities
Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Since its founding, Twitter has always lost money—more than $2 billion since 2011 alone. Oddly enough, Twitter now faces the same problem as newsrooms did back in the day when…
Inform, Expose, Fact Check, Explain

Inform, Expose, Fact Check, Explain

Two days after the election, one of our reporters spoke to teenagers at Topeka High School who said they were bullied and threatened with Donald Trump-inspired sexual assault.The story angered Diane…
5 Questions for Engin Onder

5 Questions for Engin Onder

Engin Onder, co-founder of Istanbul-based 140journos, on the state of the citizen journalism in Turkey and survival in an age of crackdowns on the media
What’s the Point of Editorials When Ideology Outweighs Facts?

What’s the Point of Editorials When Ideology Outweighs Facts?

The editor of Oklahoma’s Enid News & Eagle on why opinion pages must continue to stimulate civic—and civil—discourse
When Is A Remark Racist?

When Is A Remark Racist?

In an increasingly polarized world, journalists need to write with context and precision about race
Why BuzzFeed Was Wrong to Publish the Trump Dossier

Why BuzzFeed Was Wrong to Publish the Trump Dossier

Journalists commit a public disservice when we treat unverified facts as fact

Should Newsrooms Follow Where WikiLeaks Leads?

Journalists need to broaden our understanding of ethics beyond individual stories

When War Comes Home

Three years ago I worked as a news editor at Donbass, the largest newspaper and news website in my native city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. I was responsible for…
The challenge Trump poses for Jewish media

The challenge Trump poses for Jewish media

How do Jewish journalists cover a politician who positions himself as staunchly pro-Israel and boasts deep personal Jewish ties but is also championed by anti-Semites?