Journalist’s Trade

Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath was in her office late last summer when special projects editor Philip Bennett walked in. He’d just been watching the raw footage from Frontline’s upcoming…

As news outlets ramp up their use of native advertising, the industry must set ground rules and establish a common code of ethics

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin explores where to draw the line between coverage of aesthetics and politics

A new study explores the divisions between fixers and correspondents, as the Global Reporting Centre examines alternate models of doing foreign reporting

Reporting on the hurricane in Puerto Rico holds lessons for how to do better the next time

Innovative storytelling can make politics and policy reporting both compelling and accessible

Three veteran journalists on what can be learned from coverage of the civil rights movement and the level of reporting current events demand

Transparency is pointless if no one is watching, but there’s no way a human reporter can keep up with the open data created by a modern city, let alone a…

Form follows function. Just what that axiom means, applied to journalism, was revealed to me by a man named Carl Newton, city editor of The Atlanta Journal when I arrived…