Opinion

Who Killed Frank Morris?

Hearing of a racial murder that happened 43 years earlier, a reporter starts digging. Four years and more than 150 stories later, a grand jury was convened.

The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists

Steve Weinberg writes about the inner fire that made Jack Anderson love to kick Nixon around, Dan Kennedy looks at a new take on the complicated life of Marshall McLuhan,…

A Promising Collaboration of Place, Time and Niche

Community members come together to examine Detroit’s financial challenges. Photo by Ellen Jacob.RELATED ARTICLES“Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs”– Bill Mitchell“A New Partnership to Build a…

Steve Weinberg: Connections and Disclosures

RELATED ARTICLE“The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists”-Steve WeinbergIn 1989, Little, Brown and Company published my biography of industrialist Armand Hammer, and then Hammer sued me for defamation, as we knew…

A Failing Newsroom—Described With a Novelist’s Touch

Tom Rachman ‘is telling this story at a perfect time as newspapers shed staff and costs and, in some cases, shut down their presses altogether.’

Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker

A novelist turned biographer places ‘[Marshall] McLuhan’s maddeningly difficult ideas in a recognizably human context.’

Measuring Progress: Women as Journalists

In ‘The Edge of Change’ the perspective is forward-looking, even if many of the challenging issues of the past endure for female reporters and editors.

Frank Deford: Sports Writing in the Internet Age

Nearly a century later Twitter is the telegraph in the press box. Reporters watch the New York Giants play the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1913 World Series. Image from the…

From Journalism to Self-Publishing Books

‘Our experience with print-on-demand books offers promising and challenging news.’

Figuring Out What a 21st Century Book Can Be

When an author’s insistence on publishing under a Creative Commons license met resistance from book publishers, he decided to self-publish his book with Lulu.