Features

Chaos Theory

An online pioneer challenges media companies to think differently.

After the Shouting, Bridging the Divide

‘… our newsroom has made a serious effort to forge a stronger connection between the paper and Buffalo’s black community. … Not for a moment do I believe the healing…

Finding Strength in Numbers

Learning to use databases and mapping software has its rewards.

Turn the Newsroom Inside Out

‘The goal would be to enlist the public in expanding local sports and photography while reducing the role of professional journalists in these areas.’

Community Outreach and The Los Angeles Times

‘The Los Angeles Times is still uniquely positioned to fill a huge public need—aggressive coverage of California, a state with problems that equal its heft, a state hit particularly hard…

Global Health: A Story Rarely Told

‘Today while billions of dollars [in aid] are lost to corruption and dysfunction — and billions more save many lives — both traditional and new media are too often missing…

Gay Talese: The New York Observer

Gay Talese helped launch literary journalism in 1966 when Esquire published his profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” He shares his thoughts on the craft.
Common Ground

Common Ground

Anja Niedringhaus has worked on the frontlines of many major conflicts over the past two decades. Here she reflects on work from her new book “At War.”
‘What Gets Attention, Gets Funded’

‘What Gets Attention, Gets Funded’

RELATED ARTICLE“Global Health: A Story Rarely Told”– Stefanie FriedhoffWhen Samuel Loewenberg, a freelance foreign correspondent, heard in 2009 that 50 percent of children in Guatemala are chronically malnourished, he…

Powerful People and a Book They Almost Stopped

When a Philippine investigative journalist revealed the inner workings of her nation’s Supreme Court, the country’s largest book publisher and leading distributor walked away.