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Climate Coverage that Engages Audiences Without Overwhelming Them

Climate Coverage that Engages Audiences Without Overwhelming Them

Bushfires in Australia. Disintegrating ice in Greenland and Antarctica. Devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean. Record-breaking temperatures around the world—again. Hardly a day goes by when climate change and its consequences…
How Independent Journalists in Latin America are Finding New Ways to Hold Power to Account

How Independent Journalists in Latin America are Finding New Ways to Hold Power to Account

On a hot tropical morning last November, Carlos Fernando Chamorro peered out the airplane window and looked down on the familiar landscape of Nicaragua’s lakes and volcanoes. It had been nearly…
What Happens to News When Journalists and Historians Join Forces

What Happens to News When Journalists and Historians Join Forces

Historically-informed journalism provides crucial context to reporting
The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

Faced with new levels of political pressure and physical threat, Hong Kong’s independent news outlets respond with intrepid reporting and innovative fundraising

Ni melodrama, ni misterio policial: llamando femicidio al femicidio

Read in English. No hay crímenes más violentos en Chile que aquellos contra sus mujeres.En el país con menos homicidios en Latinoamérica, y uno de los más seguros, una mujer es…
Domestic Violence Is Not a 'Crime of Passion'

Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’

When Melissa Jeltsen Googled Lorena Bobbitt’s name a few years ago, she was surprised to learn that the woman known for cutting off her husband’s penis in 1993 had started…
Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

A young boy named Charlie pauses on his tricycle beside his backyard pool, mouth agape in a wail as his father grabs his half-naked mother. Two-year-old Memphis sobs as she…
How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

Kate Sosin and Nico Lang landed in Anchorage in March 2018 and got into a Lyft to their hotel. The Lyft driver asked what the pair was doing in town.“I…
“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

When a gunman killed 51 people and injured dozens more at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, the official response was swift. Restrictions were imposed on military-style semiautomatic…
Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show. Michael Sullivan is de facto…