Features

Press releases and broadcast-ready video substitute for European Union coverage, as news organizations cut back on staff reporters in Brussels.

‘This Pulitzer Center partnership turned out to be the start of a productive ad hoc partnership that kick-started my career as an independent journalist.”

Using a new approach to storytelling ‘we managed to broaden our audience, expand our coverage and—this is critical—not “dumb down” in the process.’

A BBC correspondent describes the benefits of three approaches to foreign news coverage—with caveats accompanying each one.

‘Depending on who is making the argument, the idea of not having foreign correspondents is either something to fear or look forward to.’

How the public responded to news reporting about the surge in Iraq was more about what the audience brought with them than what they took away.

An investigative story tests a new model of foreign news reporting—and leaves a lot of valuable lessons in its wake.

‘The textile workers’ strike was into its 19th day, and it appeared that we were the first journalists to arrive.’

Heavy media multitaskers ‘are often influenced by intervening content. News articles are therefore going to require more recapitulations and reminders to help readers pick up where they left off.’

‘The reading circuit’s very plasticity is also its Achilles’ heel. It can be fully fashioned over time and fully implemented when we read, or it can be short-circuited …’