Opinion

Science and Journalism Fail to Connect

‘How can we expect Americans to know anything beyond what they happen to remember from science class? Journalists certainly don’t tell them.’

Bringing Iraqi Voices Into the Conversation About Their Country

A Washington Post correspondent’s book ‘is not a policy screed or a compilation of talking heads and experts.’

Iraq’s Emerging Press

Providing the public with ‘accurate, complete and fair information was, and remains for most, an unknown concept.’

Winter 2005: Words & Reflections Introduction 1

“Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War,” a book written by Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from…

Winter 2005: Words & Reflections Introduction 2

In his opening essay, Dan Fagin, associate director of New York University’s Science and Environmental Reporting Program, plows the common ground beneath the coverage of intelligent design and global warming.…

Trying to Achieve Balance Against Great Odds

With the United States’s opposition to Kyoto so strong, a Canadian journalist finds little pressure from editors to include that perspective in his stories.

Culture Contributes to Perceptions of Climate Change

A comparison between the United States and Germany reveals insights about why journalists in each country report about this issue in different ways.

‘Early Signs’: A Journalism Class Project at Berkeley

One Sunday in August 2004, as I set down The New York Times Book Review, it suddenly occurred to me that there was sufficient evidence to explore one of the…

Accepting Global Warming as Fact

‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’

Global Warming: What’s Known vs. What’s Told

‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’