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Impact of Investigative Stories

Reporters sometimes devote months, if not years, to working with sources, researching and compiling information to prepare it for publication. Though what their stories reveal can be explosive and damaging…
September 15, 1999

Reporters Wrestle With How to Use Sources

Name them? Socialize with them? Trust them?
September 15, 1999

Naming Sources

Increasingly reporters cite anonymous sources rather than provide readers, viewers and listeners with actual names. At this conference, journalists, whose work demonstrates how information was gathered from sources who agreed…
September 15, 1999

Verifying What Sources Say

As helpful or reliable as sources might seem to be, no reporter should accept their version of events without finding documentation to back up what they say. None of the…
September 15, 1999

The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health

Nurses’ experience and research is vital to, but absent from, these stories.
September 15, 1999

The Evolving Coverage of Welfare Reform

Themes of Dependency Give Way to Complexities of Life Among the Working Poor
June 15, 1999

Welfare Reform and Latinos = Immigration and Cultural Politics

The Story Is About More Than Moving From Welfare to Work
June 15, 1999

Falling in Love With Words and How Journalists Use Them

I don’t particularly like thinking about what I might do after I earn my master’s degree in journalism. J-school, for all the work and worry, is more fun than any…
March 15, 1999

International Journalists Use Internet Technology to Breach Borders

A journalist in Zimbabwe, researching a story with ties to Sweden, needed to contact an investigative reporter in that Scandinavian country, though he knew no one there. In Montreal, a…
March 15, 1999

Competing with Cyberspace: The Key is Reliability

The Virginia Press Association invited me to their annual meeting to talk about the future. Specifically, they wanted to talk about how newspapers compete in the world of cyberspace. The…
March 15, 1999