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In the fall of 2000, I sat in the large seminar room at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism listening to a lecture about whether journalists should be allowed…

When I informed friends and colleagues I was leaving as associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project to buy a weekly in North Carolina’s Outer Banks there were…

Intermission was over and the house lights were about to go down for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Brahms’s “German Requiem.” It was Saturday, October 4, 2014. Rebecca…

In August 2012, Jelena Krstović was one of the most influential people in Serbia. At just 30, she was a vice president of the country’s biggest privately owned company, Delta…

Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time of the uprisings in Tehran in 2009. Fearing her life was in danger, she hurriedly…

As a New York Times technology reporter and its deputy editor for digital operations, Amy O’Leary has had a hand in many of the paper’s efforts to stay viable in…

Shani O. Hilton is executive editor at BuzzFeed, where she heads the news department. In addition to leading BuzzFeed’s expanding news division, Hilton is currently developing a code of news…

A couple months before Indonesia’s presidential election last July, all the members of the VIVAnews editorial board received a strongly-worded e-mail. The sender was the popular news site’s boss, Anindra…

In March, when it became clear something big was happening in Crimea, Jacob Resneck packed his knapsack with a laptop, sound recorder and camera and boarded a one-way flight from…

In October, as Ebola raged out of control and unsettled much of the world, I began making plans for a reporting trip to West Africa. I had covered a minor…