Journalist’s Trade

“Today it is difficult to pick up a sports section or watch a sporting event on TV without finding some athlete’s privacy being invaded.” This observation rests at the center…

Big companies are like battleships going down the middle of a gulf. When we fire our guns they’re pretty loud, but we don’t change direction very well.It’s the size of…

In 1978, ABC started a program called “20/20,” as a kind of a standard newsmagazine program. They were trying to see what they could do in the “60 Minutes” business.…

We celebrate tonight the men and women whose dedication to the collection and distribution of facts threatens their very existence. When they antagonize those with money, political power and guns,…

How Profitability Has Moved Networks Out of Hard News

Which Way They Go Could Depend on What Journalists Know and How They React

Photo by Diedra Laird, The Charlotte Observer.For years, parents and educators in poverty-ridden pockets of the South sensed the public schools were shortchanging their children. And they were right. Their…

After two years of traveling the country working with reporters and editors on computer-assisted reporting techniques, it was clear that no story invokes more fear than the dreaded annual school…

Parents stand up to speak at school board meetings, clutching a copy of the newspaper. The dog-eared newsprint is the source of research that buttresses their comments.School officials pore over…

Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald.For at least a decade before The Omaha World-Herald published its five-part series “The Learning…