Journalist’s Trade

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

Arabs with Israeli citizenship account for roughly 20 percent of Israel’s population, but comprise just 3 percent of interviewees on leading news shows. Several Israeli non-profits are trying to change…

With Islam threaded through beats from foreign affairs to crime to education, journalists are stepping up efforts to provide nuanced coverage of Muslims and their religion

While there's no Pulitzer category for business reporting, taking on corporations and financial interests is at the core of many Prize-winning stories

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

The Globe’s Walter V. Robinson: “None of us thought that how we made the sausage really was interesting at all”