‘Despite their importance and the tough transition when they switch from reporter or copyeditor, frontline editors often are sent to the end of the line for training.’

Journalism professors work to align essential skills with emerging technology.

‘Lessons learned from past failures can help to ensure future triumphs.’

New online tools will help prospective assigning editors see whether they have what it takes to succeed.

‘If we’re forced to be a smaller place, then let’s aggressively teach ourselves the virtues that go along with that sensibility.’

“The first accurate description we heard of the storm’s wrath was told to a Sun Herald reporter in four words: ‘Your city is gone,'” writes Stan Tiner, executive editor of…

‘Do these labels — “health disparities” and “the achievement gap" — create a more comfortable way for us to talk about contemporary impacts of race?’

This list of books, articles and Web sites has been compiled by Carl Sessions Stepp, a former assigning editor and now journalism professor at the University of Maryland. Books About…

Whether editors’ training takes place in a single newsroom or as a regional gathering, its essential elements remain consistent.

A reporter looks for ways to merge coverage of the middle class and the poor.