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The Medium is The (Text) Message

The Medium is The (Text) Message

“Facebook is a bit like that big dog galloping toward you in the park,” said the late New York Times journalist David Carr, bemoaning the influence the social media giant…
Reporting on Disability with Sensitivity, not Sensationalism

Reporting on Disability with Sensitivity, not Sensationalism

One day back in the spring of 2013, New York Times reporter Dan Barry was looking for a topic for “This Land,” his column about American life, when he came…
Obstacles and Opportunities for Journalists with Disabilities

Obstacles and Opportunities for Journalists with Disabilities

My first real mishap as a blind journalist happened during my first reporting internship at a small public radio station in southern Connecticut. It was a languid summer afternoon, and…
Gabriel Dance of The Marshall Project: "We don't care where you see our content"

Gabriel Dance of The Marshall Project: “We don’t care where you see our content”

For a guy with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in multimedia journalism, you might think Gabriel Dance wouldn’t be all that enamored of non-fiction prose. But…
Bringing Native American Stories to a National Audience

Bringing Native American Stories to a National Audience

On a cold winter’s night, a few minutes after 6 p.m., police in Rapid City, South Dakota were called to a house in the Lakota Community Homes development where Allen…
Finbarr O'Reilly, NF '13, collaborates with a Marine to drive conversation about war's aftermath

Finbarr O’Reilly, NF ’13, collaborates with a Marine to drive conversation about war’s aftermath

When I met Sgt. Thomas James Brennan at a remote combat outpost in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in 2010, I was an embedded Reuters photographer and he was the leader of…
What Nicki Minaj Can Teach Newsrooms About Credibility

What Nicki Minaj Can Teach Newsrooms About Credibility

On a recent visit to my daughter’s college campus, I heard student musicians talking about a New York Times Magazine profile, “The Passion of Nicki Minaj,” but it wasn’t what…
Culture critic Chris Vognar, NF ’09, discovers new talents in a multimedia cross-disciplinary approach to his beat

Culture critic Chris Vognar, NF ’09, discovers new talents in a multimedia cross-disciplinary approach to his beat

since my return to the Dallas Morning News in 2009 following my fellowship year, I have been a culture critic. Trading in my old title of movie critic formalized my…
Why Journalists Shouldn't Be Blinded by Bad Science

Why Journalists Shouldn’t Be Blinded by Bad Science

Astronomer and longtime professor David J. Helfand has taught scientific habits of mind to generations of undergraduates at Columbia University. His first book, “A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age:…
An AP Correspondent Examines Why Foreign News Matters

An AP Correspondent Examines Why Foreign News Matters

When Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded, slammed into the Philippines in 2013, I rushed there from Bangkok to report on it with my colleagues from The…