Opinion

A Message for Journalists: It’s Time to Flex Old Muscles in New Ways

‘We’ll learn by trying new ways of doing what we’ve done with news, by putting ourselves visibly in the social media mix, and by using the emerging tools of daily…

When Journalists Were Targets

Sunday Dare wrote a book, “Guerilla Journalism: Dispatches from the Underground,” about his experiences working as an independent journalist in Nigeria when that country was ruled by a military dictatorship.RELATED…

Digital Stories Are Being Chosen and Consumed à la Dim Sum

In the absence of a front page—or even a home page, will readers confront a crisis of context? Or will convenience and a self-confidence in judgment triumph?

Are Newspapers Dying? The View of an Aspiring Journalist

‘In The Republican’s newsroom I experienced something of a disconnect between the old vanguard of journalists who filled the paper’s top posts and younger staffers who were frustrated by the…

Moving Across the Border: Teaching Journalism in Hong Kong

‘As a student from Shenzhen, an industrial city just across the border, said: “Once I’ve discovered all the resources out there, I don’t want them taken away from me.” ’

Connecting What Happened Then With What Happens Now

‘To focus on Don Hollenbeck’s death is to miss the lessons of his life.’

What Changed Journalism—Forever—Were Engineers

‘Like the other engineer that has succeeded in killing journalism’s economic model—Craigslist’s Craig Newmark—Google’s founders have nothing against journalists, newspapers or our search for truth, justice and the American way.’

A Journalist Joins the Nigerian Government—If Only for A While

‘I wanted my freedom back—the freedom to be able to tell truth to power.’

It’s Not the Assignment: It’s the Lessons That Come From It

RELATED ARTICLE“Digital Stories Are Being Chosen and Consumed à la Dim Sum”– Michele WeldonMy students’ assignment seemed straightforward: take a front page of a newspaper and translate it into a…

The Important History News Organizations Have to Tell

By creating archives of company records ‘we can learn how the paper developed and organized itself, how editors and reporters approached stories, and how community leaders and ordinary citizens responded…