A comparison between the United States and Germany reveals insights about why journalists in each country report about this issue in different ways. Read more
Last year, I was invited to attend The New York Times’ Adversarial Reporting Training, a four-day course designed to teach reporters how to stay safe in precarious situations. Known as ART School, the training takes place at a giant photo … Read more
Characters abounded in the first newsroom I worked in. There was the gruff managing editor, who paced around our desks at deadline and growled: “File the story! You’re rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic!” Then there was the aggressive and … Read more
It was a moment I will never forget and still can’t quite get over: looking into the eyes of a humpback whale and her calf. The calf seemed curious and swam over its mother to get a better look at me. Read more
Throughout her 47-year career as a pioneering sports journalist, including 34 years as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Helene Elliott covered 18 Olympics. She reported on some of the Games’ biggest stories and stars, including the U.S. hockey … Read more
When The New York Times sent me to report on a transformative oil discovery in my birthplace, Guyana, they asked for, and got, a first-person narrative. The opening scene places me at the gates of an old sugar plantation … Read more
The heavy rain had been pounding for three days straight. I peered through the raindrops running down my window as streaks of lightning crackled and thunder echoed in the distance above the mountains. News started to trickle in. Record rains. Read more
My college roommate gets her news from a talking fish on TikTok. And she’s not the only one. The “Talking Fish News” has 325,000 followers, and it is one of many accounts playing off of the beloved SpongeBob SquarePants … Read more
Part of Izzy Gutierrez’s job as an intern at Nashville TV station WSMV was to produce peppy Instagram reels about what happens behind the scenes at the station’s lifestyle show, Today in Nashville. There was Gutierrez getting ready for … Read more
