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Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

He’s written thousands of articles for The New York Times, produced dozens of documentaries for PBS, and written seven books, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith says his latest venture is among…
July 31, 2015
Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Asking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life

Former Time Magazine correspondent Phil Zabriskie, author of the Kindle Single “The Kill Switch,” on why he chose to look at what it means to kill in combat and how…
July 2, 2015
Public Radio and the Sound of America

Public Radio and the Sound of America

When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent…
June 11, 2015

Journalists Must Train Their Brains to See Beyond Stereotypes

The high-profile deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray have allowed us to train the spotlight on law enforcement and examine how police officers can be…
June 11, 2015

Newsrooms Need to Engage if They Want to See Real Change

We’re currently caught in a period of time in this country where we seem to be in an almost perpetual state of conversation about issues of race, ethnicity, and diversity.…
June 11, 2015
When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data?

When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data?

From the Pentagon Papers to Hollywood e-mails, reporters and editors face complex decisions when it comes to reporting on information from hackers and leakers
June 1, 2015
Richard Tofel on ProPublica's Mission-Driven Approach to Investigative Reporting

Richard Tofel on ProPublica’s Mission-Driven Approach to Investigative Reporting

Richard Tofel, president of ProPublica since 2013, joined the nonprofit investigative news organization as general manager at its founding in 2007. Two years after it started publishing, ProPublica’s Sheri Fink,…
May 14, 2015

At Harvard, a Reporter Finds Hard Lessons on Diversity in Education​

Last fall, I sat in on a class at Harvard University filled with students who were working on graduate degrees in higher education. The professor posed a simple but enlightening…
March 24, 2015
For Online Publications, Data Is News

For Online Publications, Data Is News

The Texas Tribune launched in late 2009 with a newsroom of veteran journalists and rising stars. And while that respected crew of reporters, editors, and columnists would go on to unearth…
March 24, 2015
Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate

Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate

The Facebook posting was striking, coming from a friend who writes powerfully about race and was now arguing against the University of Oklahoma’s expulsion of fraternity members for their racist…
March 24, 2015