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Growing up in a small village in northern Israel, Janaan Bsoul loved watching news and current affair shows with her dad. Bsoul is an Arab, and the people on television—anchors, pundits,…

The concept was simple: Seven Californian Muslims, each photographed against a grey background, talking about the phrase “Allahu Akbar,” usually translated as “God is great.” No voiceovers. No cutaways. Just…

AP correspondent Margie Mason was reporting another story in Jakarta, Indonesia when her source asked why she wasn’t looking into the hundreds and hundreds of men enslaved in the Southeast…

It was a moment that many thought never would happen. In 1997, for the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, the award went to a…

There it is, in the very first sentence of Theodore H. White’s Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicle of the battle between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon for the presidency: The curious…

“Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park,” said the late New York Times journalist David Carr, bemoaning the influence the social media giant…

The origins of the Oscar-nominated film “Spotlight” can be traced to Harvard, in a 2003 issue of Nieman Reports.Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School earlier this month, Globe editor-at-large Walter V.…

The newly bought flashlight pierced the darkness, but the number on the house was nowhere to be seen.I hopped out of the warm car and crunched over ice covering the…

Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, is used to generating controversy with his reviews. Yet the Donald Trump outburst that followed Kamin’s critique of the…

“It was a success in every dimension except the one we thought it would be.”That’s Daniel Jacobson’s tweet-length summary of his experience, in 2008, opening up a hefty selection of…