Paul Salopek had been writing international stories for more than 20 years before he decided to slow down. “I was a conventional foreign correspondent zipping around the world doing fireman stories,” he says. Working for the Chicago Tribune, he … Read more
Over the five months that I have been editor of IndiaSpend, a data-driven website that focuses on public interest journalism, our social media following has increased by about 600 percent, albeit from a low base. Our stories are … Read more
Jay Lauf found a way around trouble early in his career. He wanted to be a journalist but when he couldn’t find a job he took a position selling ads for a trade magazine publisher. In 2001, as the … Read more
‘When no reporters, photographers or news editors come from the fishing community, it is unlikely this community’s problems will be understood ….’ Read more