Features

On midterm election night last year, NPR carried out its usual live coverage, coordinating stories from its reporters and from member stations across the country. Most of the audience followed…

In January 2015, The Washington Post’s labor reporter at the time, Lydia DePillis, wrote a story called “Why Internet journalists don’t organize.” DePillis observed that many writers were individualistic and…

A survey of more than 300 journalists finds visual arts writers and critics addressing issues of race, gender, identity—and relevance

On February 26, 2018, Slovak investigative journalist Marek Vagovič rushed through the morning traffic of Bratislava. Early that morning his boss, Peter Bárdy, editor in chief of online news portal…

In an essay first published in 1999 that graces his collection “Things That Matter” (2013), the late Charles Krauthammer answered a question posed by Time magazine: Who was the most…

Women’s sports in the U.S. receive only 4 percent of sports media coverage. Why it’s time for that to change

Avoiding the pitfalls of hidden biases can lead to better story selection and more inclusive reporting

To meet the challenges of the midterms, news outlets are taking a more collaborative approach, changing how they report on polls, and covering the voting process itself as well as…

Spaceship Media and other outlets are experimenting with ways to bridge the political divides in the U.S.

When Washington Post sports reporter Kent Babb traveled to Oakland, Calif., to report a feature story on Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch during the summer of 2017, Babb knew…