Journalist’s Trade

Misinformation, though not a new phenomenon, has increasingly infiltrated our news ecosystem, fueled by the speed that information travels and the filter bubbles—both physical and digital—we live in, undermining democratic…

Valuing visual types in the newsroom has a good payoff

Days after last year’s terrorist attack on a public services center in San Bernardino, California, Kristen Stangas was standing amid a cluster of reporters outside Los Angeles City Hall. Journalists…

There’s a romance to the notion of foreign correspondence–the war-weary, adventure-seeking ink slinger. For me it was the movie “The Killing Fields” that drew me to this work, the idea…

In early 2014, John Ingold, a longtime reporter for The Denver Post, noticed that the number of parents of young patients registered with the state to gain access to medical…

An except from Sara M. Watson's Tow Center report on constructive technology criticism

Crowdfunding's financial contribution to journalism is still meager, but journalists are finding that crowdfunding can bring what Google and Facebook so often take away: the crowd and the funding

This article is based on the author’s book, “Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism,” being published in October 2016 by Harvard University Press.The path to The Washington Post’s 1999…

Competing news outlets are teaming up on investigative reporting projects that none could manage on their own

Monica Guzman's new API report explores the best ways to build audience—and relevance—by listening to and engaging with readers