After working as Central Command’s spokesman for the war in Iraq, Josh Rushing became a reporter for Al Jazeera and writes about his transformative journey.

‘The currency common to these assignments was the thread of local connections stretching from Indiana to overseas and back in news stories we broadcast.’

New media—and new ‘newsroom’ arrangements—combine to make local coverage of environmental issues compelling and personal.

‘… we need to demonstrate in our pages and on our Web site that local journalism does not mean insular, shallow content.’

‘… stories conveyed a definite point of view, and the voice we used shared our perspective throughout their telling.’

A trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in a journalist’s determination to find ways to report on the devastation she now knows exists.

Two brothers photographed life in a working-class neighborhood and found ‘kinship and camaraderie.’

‘As journalists, we make moral and subjective choices all of the time, just like the people we cover.’

In a coffee-table book, Associated Press correspondents and photographers describe what they and their colleagues did to be first with the news.

In exploring why journalism matters, it is not enough to look at what works well; examine, too, why sometimes it fails.