Author The Science of Journalism I came into journalism in a roundabout way. I was a voracious reader as a child, growing up in middle-class Nairobi, partly as a retreat from a difficult home situation… February 8, 2018 Facts Are Facts, No Matter if Readers Like Them We are in a time of hyper-propaganda, and not just from Russia, through social media that has reached, if not influenced, tens of millions of Americans. The president of the… February 6, 2018 Photographing Massacre Survivors as Individuals, not Statistics Anastasia Taylor-Lind, NF ’16, creates a makeshift studio in a Rohingya refugee camp February 5, 2018 Reversing the Dangerous Trust Deficit The New York Times recently implemented what may be an unprecedented move for a newspaper. It hired a fact checker to backstop the reporting in the D.C. bureau.Aside from cutting… February 1, 2018 Paying Attention to Word Choice When Writing about Addiction You don’t have to go too far back in time to find the word “junkie” used to refer to someone who injects heroin, even by outlets that steer clear of… January 24, 2018 Turning the Focus from Opioid Addiction to Treatment and Recovery These days, you’d be hard-pressed to open a news app, turn on the TV, or check your social media feeds without coming across a story about how the opioid epidemic… January 24, 2018 “As a recovering addict, I know those pictures live forever” Photographer Graham MacIndoePhotographer Graham MacIndoe left his native Scotland in 1992 to make it in New York. He worked for outlets such as The New York Times Magazine and The… January 24, 2018 Don’t Shy Away from Dealing Forthrightly with Race Editorial decisions frequently take into account race and identity—even when we pretend they don’t January 16, 2018 The Race Beat, Revisited Shereen Marisol Meraji kicked off an episode of “Code Switch,” a podcast taglined “Race and Identity Remixed,” with a confession: “My mom’s Puerto Rican; my dad’s Iranian. And I, too, suffer from… January 12, 2018 4 Steps to Bring Ethical Clarity to Native Advertising As news outlets ramp up their use of native advertising, the industry must set ground rules and establish a common code of ethics January 4, 2018 Previous 1 … 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 … 429 Next
