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A Pesar de la Violencia, los Periodistas Innovan para Reportear en México

A Pesar de la Violencia, los Periodistas Innovan para Reportear en México

Xalapa, VeracruzUna foto enmarcada de la portada de la edición del 15 de febrero de 2014 de Proceso, uno de los semanarios más importantes de México, cuelga de la pared…
Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

Alex Miller is global head of content at Vice Media, overseeing the media company’s 10 digital channels, in addition to the monthly print magazine’s website Vice.com. Miller, who began his…
Killing Journalists with Impunity

Killing Journalists with Impunity

When the committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched its 2015 Global Impunity Index—a survey of countries with the worst records for solving the murders of journalists—it was no surprise that…
Despite Violence, Journalists in Mexico Innovate to Report

Despite Violence, Journalists in Mexico Innovate to Report

Xalapa, VeracruzIn Noé Zavaleta’s bedroom, there’s a framed picture on the wall of the February 15, 2014 cover of Proceso, a leading newsmagazine in Mexico. It features a photo of…
Jon Palfreman, NF '06, investigates Parkinson's disease as both author and subject

Jon Palfreman, NF ’06, investigates Parkinson’s disease as both author and subject

My life changed on a cold, dark, rainy January morning in 2011. Worried about a modest tremor in my left hand, my doctor had referred me to a neurologist. At…
Automation in the Newsroom

Automation in the Newsroom

Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press, has been covering business since the mid-1990s. Before joining the AP, she worked as a business reporter for both local newspapers…
A Brief Guide to Robot Reporting Tools

A Brief Guide to Robot Reporting Tools

Transparency is pointless if no one is watching, but there’s no way a human reporter can keep up with the open data created by a modern city, let alone a…

In China, Legal Affairs Reporting Is Not Just a Beat

As a legal reporter in China for the past six years, I have spent a lot of time in courthouses. Judges almost always bar reporters from sitting in courtrooms and…
How Radio Reporters Turn Ideas into Feelings

How Radio Reporters Turn Ideas into Feelings

Spending hours sitting alone at a drawing table, cartoonist Jessica Abel often listens to public radio, a habit that turned her into a devotee. Abel calls radio “the most fertile…
Why News Outlets Are Watching India's Next Billion Internet Users

Why News Outlets Are Watching India’s Next Billion Internet Users

Every morning, Mr. and Mrs. Singh gently shoo their dog away from the freshly delivered copies of The Times of India and the Hindustan Times, two of India’s oldest and…