Journalist’s Trade

Reporting Compelling Stories About Ordinary Teens

‘Pretend you’re an archeologist or an alien recording their world.’
March 15, 2001
Barbara Walsh

Reporting About Poverty and Race Needs to Change

Yet journalists too often convey only a one-dimensional sense of déjà vu.
March 15, 2001
Nick Kotz

‘The Price of Prosperity’

Journalists unearth stories beneath the veneer of wealth.
March 15, 2001
Roland De Wolk

Covering Race, Poverty and Class in the New Gilded Age

“So, what are you working on?” a friend asked me recently as we waited in line to see a movie. I told him about a story I was writing about…
March 15, 2001
Jonathan Kaufman

Neither Publishers nor Readers Clamor for Stories About the Poor

Even so, the hard work of reporting about poverty has lasting value.
March 15, 2001
Lynda McDonnell

Creating a Network of Young Reporters

We’re still thinking about saving high-school newspapers. But, if we start now, they might be able to save us.
March 15, 2001
Laurie Becklund

Sparking a Passion for Journalism in High School

A journalism association works to strengthen a tenuous but invaluable resource.
March 15, 2001
Diana Mitsu Klos

Freedom of the Press Stops at the Schoolhouse Gate

The consequences of student press censorship could be devastating.
March 15, 2001
Mark Goodman

Forgotten Stories About Forgotten People

‘Journalists could do a much better job reminding us of who we are supposed to be.’
March 15, 2001
Peter Edelman

Finding a Path to Cross a Racial Divide

Reporters began to listen rather than assume they knew what the story was.
March 15, 2001
Kathy Spurlock