Journalist’s Trade

This list of recommended books has been assembled by Boyce Rensberger, director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It represents only a start on…

Waste and pollution are the result of the paper that fuels the timber industry.

With more newspapers now using graphics to display information, John Maxwell Hamilton, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University, along with several colleagues, examined how…

1. The Oregonian“The Boy Behind the Mask”To report “The Boy Behind the Mask,” Tom Hallman, Jr. spent hundreds of hours, over more than 10 months, poring over medical records, reading…

In USA Today, some of its ‘Snapshots’ have not given the full picture.

Walter Bender is the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Electronic Publishing Group and is a member of the laboratory’s News in the Future consortium.…

Should news organizations look for ways to better communicate their business stories to their readers, as well as to other members of the public? And, if so, how do they…

Two books hint at how and why this can and should be done.

Few words were uttered more often during this conference than “Wall Street.” What follows are edited excerpts from various sessions, all of which focus attention on the tug that Wall…

Quality can be an elusive term. It is one that conference participants struggled to explain, define and find ways to put into practice. What follows are edited excerpts that speak…