Features

Working to close the generation and credibility gap, post-Jayson Blair.

Newspaper reading isn’t a daily habit for most young people. Instead they catch headlines on Web sites, share opinions on Weblogs, and see breaking news alerts along TV scroll bars.…

The following excerpt is from a longer piece, “Seeing Devastation Through a Child’s Eyes,” written by Kayla Conklin and published in Voices in April 2003. Conklin is a former Voices’…

Whites interviewed whites. Blacks interviewed blacks. The stories came together.

Black and white journalists, at times working as colleagues, at other times separately, have produced the first draft of our nation’s difficult history of race relations. In this issue of…

A brief history of the ‘first cloned human embryo’ story.

Science demands evidence, and some forms of evidence are worth more than others are. A scientist’s authority should command attention but, in the absence of evidence, not belief. There is…

International coverage is good, while local research often isn’t well covered.

Reporters are better prepared, the public is eager for news, yet the science beat is getting tougher to do.

‘Once you’ve done it you can’t imagine doing anything else.’