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“The way journalists interact with the communities we cover needs to change”

“The way journalists interact with the communities we cover needs to change”

I met Kate Geiger when I was doing a piece for NPR in 2013 about a former GM assembly plant Dayton. She’s worked there most of her career, and when…
Yes, We Need A Special Commission…

Yes, We Need A Special Commission…

The media, along with former FBI Director James Comey, helped Donald Trump become president. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has detailed why. But it doesn’t take a mathematician to understand that…
The Sting of the Lie

The Sting of the Lie

I first read the lie under a competitor’s byline: the results of DNA testing on a rape case I was covering. My reporting partner and I didn’t know it was…
David Axelrod: “When you hear people’s stories, there is a common humanity that is healthy and important”

David Axelrod: “When you hear people’s stories, there is a common humanity that is healthy and important”

A longtime political consultant, David Axelrod has managed upwards of 150 local, state, and national campaigns—including Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential runs, with a stint as the president’s senior…
Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

On October 11, 2011, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Donna Jane Watts clocked a car driving down the Florida turnpike at 120 miles per hour, well over the zone’s 70 mph…

A Former Fake News Creator on Covering Fake News

I am known by many people as many things, but above all I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother, and by all means, a hard-working, middle-class American.…
Don't Fear the Curmudgeon

Don’t Fear the Curmudgeon

Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media.For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group…
Rethinking the White House Beat

Rethinking the White House Beat

Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, reporters on one of 2016’s most important news stories, the Panama Papers, recently issued a challenge in an essay published in The Guardian to their…
AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity)

AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity)

Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the…

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…