Photo by Eden BrackstoneI am not a journalist. I’m a digital guy. I am well versed in the trends of newspapers’ decline, but at the age of 35 I’ve never…

The battle raged over 29 words.In 1999, the Chicago Tribune published a five-part series, “Trial and Error,” that for the first time documented the incidence of prosecutorial misconduct nationally. One…

Photo by Douglas SondersThere’s an energy to big, busy newsrooms that’s unlike any other. Reporters and editors tapping away on keyboards, muttering through copy, interviews taking place, police scanners crackling,…

Photo of Murdoch by Kirsty Wigglesworth/The Assoicated PressOn a late March afternoon in 2002, 13-year-old British schoolgirl Amanda Jane “Milly” Dowler called her dad from her cell phone after school…

Click the image to meet the fighters. Photos by Karim Ben KhelifaUp until a few years ago, I had spent a decade and a half of my life behind the…

Illustration by Harry CampbellIn 2008, the year of the financial crisis, BusinessWeek magazine pictured Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke as a driver careening down a mountain road, then as Vladimir…

The Complete InterviewOn March 29, 2013, retired Concord Monitor editor Mike Pride, NF ’85, sat down with his friend Donald Hall, the former U.S. poet laureate, for a videotaped conversation…

Donald Hall. Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate, has lived at Eagle Pond Farm, with its white clapboard farmhouse and weathered barn, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, since…

Poet and Harvard English professor Stephen Burt explores how familiar stories are made fresh again by the way we put them into words

In the age of crowdsourced reporting, we need professional journalists more than ever