Journalist’s Trade

Journalists’ access to construction sites is curtailed, so environmental effects and population displacement can’t be easily reported.

Filmmakers invite ‘viewers to commit themselves for a while to the characters on screen and the choices they make.’

Unlike the Web, Digital Newsbooks are designed to be downloaded and read offline. Here’s what you need to read a Digital Newsbook: A computer with Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP…

‘… the more I learned about fishing, the less clarity there seemed.’

‘Not everything is black and white, nor do the words legal and illegal do justice to these issues.’

A series of news reports found city agencies ignoring their own regulations and illegally polluting water in Dallas.

Areas on the lakebed that generate dust must be controlled with one of three approved dust-control measures: flooding with shallow sheets of water, establishing native salt-tolerant vegetation, or covering the…

‘The imperatives of narrative nonfi ction carried me like a current to the book’s last words.’

A journalist probes the story of water privatization in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Water is the essence of life, and its cleanliness, availability, and our use and abuse of it are stories meriting reporters’ and editors’ attention. Yet as Stuart Leavenworth, who covered…