Sounding Why the Stories of Everyday Moments Matter As a reporter, I have written numerous stories about people. I hope I got as many stories right as I could, but I’m sure I missed many, too. The one… March 22, 2019 Yoshiaki Nohara People Want to Know About People It’s odd that we forget people in our reporting. We’re people. Everyone around us is a person, however annoying their habits might be. People want to know about people; gossip… April 27, 2018 Sipho Kings “The Requesting of Good Things” I didn’t always know I wanted to be a reporter. I came at it sideways, in college, after deciding to major in creative writing. There’s no career path for writing… April 10, 2018 Dustin Dwyer The Science of Journalism I came into journalism in a roundabout way. I was a voracious reader as a child, growing up in middle-class Nairobi, partly as a retreat from a difficult home situation… February 8, 2018 Christine Mungai “Presenting a More Balanced and Nuanced View of Black Life” The very first time I viewed a William H. Johnson painting, the work moved me so deeply, I immediately declared him my favorite artist.I was barely a teenager. I didn’t… August 24, 2017 Lolly Bowean Seeking a way to get more personal without getting less objective While on assignment in Somalia a few years back, I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the Mogadishu mayor’s office alongside a dozen Somali men—some in white robes,… August 22, 2017 Heidi Vogt Djinns in the Newsroom My grandmother was well known for telling extraordinary tales. One in particular has stuck with me since the summer I was dispatched alone to her in Delhi. At the time… June 16, 2017 Jassim Ahmad The Power in Sports Two years ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gave me the reporting opportunity of a lifetime—go to the Dominican Republic and Cuba to write about the dynamics of the baseball culture on each… April 20, 2017 J. Brady McCollough When War Comes Home Three years ago I worked as a news editor at Donbass, the largest newspaper and news website in my native city of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. I was responsible for… January 5, 2017 Alisa Sopova Democracy at the Dinner Table I often feel my job is to trick people into paying attention to the world around them. Beauty, light, and composition are my tools to draw one’s eye into the… November 29, 2016 Andrea Bruce Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next