In February 2015, Justicia Cotidiana (“Everyday Justice”) hosted a hackathon for journalists, developers, and designers in Mexico City, Mexico. It was there that I first heard the term “black figure” to refer to the disparity between the … Read more
I came into journalism in a roundabout way. I was a voracious reader as a child, growing up in middle-class Nairobi, partly as a retreat from a difficult home situation as my parents’ marriage broke down. I spent hours poring over world maps, absorbing obscure facts from encyclopedias, and reading all manner of novels from Dickens classics to Sweet Valley High. Read more
Photographer Graham MacIndoe Photographer Graham MacIndoe left his native Scotland in 1992 to make it in New York. He worked for outlets such as The New York … Read more
Social media platforms used to be a place to discover interesting people far away, to get hints of breaking news, to connect with your audience, and even a tool for democracy. They could still be all of those things. But … Read more
In early November, close to 400 journalists in nearly 70 countries published dozens of stories about the offshore financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations. The stories drew on the Paradise Papers, … Read more
A good place to start telling the unfolding story of sexual harassment in newsrooms is July 6th, 2016. That’s the day former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, … Read more
In March Elena Milashina, a reporter for Russia’s leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was tipped off by a source about the suspicious death of a man in Chechnya. Through her reporting, Milashina, who had been covering Chechnya for more than a decade, learned that … Read more
Translated from the Spanish by Patrick Timmons of the Mexican Journalism Translation Project. Leer en español. “Is it a surprise that the Mexican government spies on you?” I did not exaggerate when I responded to the … Read more
On September 19, as Hurricane Maria gathered strength and Puerto Ricans took shelter, bracing for the worst, a team of NBC News reporters whose social media accounts suggest they’re based in Pasadena, New York, and London, filed … Read more
I had increasingly intense visions of harming my wife. That’s not quite right. I had been having off-and-on images of violent events for years—seeing myself raped in prison or impaled during car crashes—and they finally became visions of hurting my … Read more
