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With his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy

With his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy

after 15 years of assignments in war zones around the globe, I’ve found that the hopes, dreams, and nightmares of enemies are often more similar than they are different. This…
Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt

Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt

Amidst a challenging political and economic environment, young Egyptian reporters are developing innovative journalism and business models
Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

He’s written thousands of articles for The New York Times, produced dozens of documentaries for PBS, and written seven books, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith says his latest venture is among…
Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia

Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia

So often, journalists are quick to dismiss stories that have been done before, especially those that have been written over and over again. But what if you could take a…
How to Deter Doxxing

How to Deter Doxxing

Newsroom strategies to prevent the harassment that follows the public posting of home addresses, phone numbers and journalists’ other personal information
Architecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?

Architecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin explains why the dynamic, tumultuous process of creative disruption should not be mistaken for permanent dissolution

What APIs Can Do for News

How application programming interfaces (APIs) transformed internal operations at NPR, the Times, and The Guardian—and how they could still help create a more open ecosystem for news
Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Former Time Magazine correspondent Phil Zabriskie, author of the Kindle Single “The Kill Switch,” on why he chose to look at what it means to kill in combat and how…
How Netflix Flipped the Script on Television's Disruption

How Netflix Flipped the Script on Television’s Disruption

In “Television Is the New Television,” media critic Michael Wolff argues TV is disrupting the Internet much more than the other way around
Why Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race

Why Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race

Race, culture, and poverty deserve to be covered in the same way as the weather, sports, and the stock market