Journalist’s Trade

What Facebook’s plans for Messenger say about chatbots, AI-powered news, and the role of journalists in a world where language is the new digital interface

From crime statistics to SEC filings, software agents can monitor vast amounts of open data to help journalists spot potential stories

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin explains why the dynamic, tumultuous process of creative disruption should not be mistaken for permanent dissolution

How application programming interfaces (APIs) transformed internal operations at NPR, the Times, and The Guardian—and how they could still help create a more open ecosystem for news

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…

On my way into work at Medill Watchdog for the first time, I stopped at Hanig’s Shoe Store. It was February 1, 2011, part of a three-day storm in which…

When a handful of students show up this fall for the new media innovation graduate program at Northeastern University, they’ll learn coding, information visualization, videography, database management—even game design. The…

From the Olympics in Sochi, to protests in Kiev that ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to the movement of Russian troops in Crimea, Russia has been one of the…

If a story echoes in the woods and no one hears it, is it still a story? Well, if it’s a written story, perhaps yes, but a spoken story needs…

So, what’s your story?” asked Lea Thau, creator of “The Moth Radio Hour.” “I understand you came from Mexico as a young kid.” Thus began a series of questions to…