Features

Questioning Assumptions About Poverty

A North Carolina public radio station devotes extraordinary time and resources to an exploration of what it means to be poor in this time and place.

Probing the Shifting Ground of Wage and Benefit Gaps

Business reporters need to keep a careful watch on the numerous ways in which corporate executives are thriving, while promises to workers are being broken.

Investigating the Nation’s Exploding Credit Squeeze

When I started out, my film was going to be about other people’s economic woes. Soon I realized I was part of this story of how the credit industry targets…

Untangling the Achievement Gap’s Factors

‘Gaps intersected and converged like earthquake fault lines; what affected one rippled through the others.’

Numbers Don’t Tell a Story That Connects With Readers

With reports about tough economic times in hand, a journalist relies on families’ experiences to illuminate the significance of the findings.

Violence Attracts the News Media to a Story Not Reported Enough

Coverage of the riots in France reaffirmed the need for ongoing, in-depth reporting of poor immigrants’ circumstances and the issues they confront.

Creating a New Town Square

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’

Drawing the Mood of New Orleans

‘Cartoon ideas presented themselves, but none embraced the gravity of the situation.’

Defining a Journalist’s Function

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.

Reconnecting With the Audience

‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’