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In writing about Sarah Palin and her 2022 bid for Congress, T.A. Frank made a promise to readers — and to himself.  A past Palin critic, Frank set out on…

As more people are displaced from their home countries, newsrooms inside of refugee camps are popping up to give voice to these marginalized communities

Trauma-informed reporting can help journalists better connect with sources dealing with grief, pain, and loss

When two young journalists were married in a Turkish prison in 2017, they vowed to be always together “in bondage and in freedom, in autocracy and in democracy.”  Minez Bayülgen,…

Since 2017, journalists from eight newsrooms in five African countries have partnered with Code for Africa (CfA), a network of civic democracy and data journalism labs, to create sensors.Africa, a…

Think about a “threat to democracy,” and it’s easy to conjure up an image of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the nation’s very seat of government besieged…

When The (Bergen) Record in northern New Jersey began tracking Covid-19 deaths and writing profiles about the deceased in March 2020, the task seemed manageable.Jim O’Neill, a longtime editor at…

As a photography editor at The Washington Post, evaluating whether to publish images of death and destruction can be part of my daily responsibilities. I am currently managing our photo…

Early on Feb. 24, Russia began bombing Ukrainian cities. That same morning, an endless marathon for Ukrainian journalists began. A whole month has passed since then, and this nightmare feels…

In the summer of 2017, Susan Potter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote the kind of column that no editor wants to pen.“Our poll of the 6th Congressional District race, conducted…