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A Newspaper’s Redesign Signals Its Renewal

‘… newspapers have enormous strengths to rely on — and that is where we need to concentrate.’
March 15, 2006

Defining a Journalist’s Function

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.
December 15, 2005

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.…
December 15, 2005

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.
December 15, 2005

‘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…
December 15, 2005

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.’
December 15, 2005

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.’
December 15, 2005

Weight-of-Evidence Reporting: What Is It? Why Use It?

Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’
December 15, 2005

The Disconnect of News Reporting From Scientific Evidence

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’
December 15, 2005

Disinformation, Financial Pressures, and Misplaced Balance

A reporter describes the systemic forces that work against the story of climate change being accurately told.
December 15, 2005