The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists By Longreads Feature Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
Living to Create: Talking Music and Writing With Drummer Emily Rose Epstein By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Musician Emily Rose Epstein talks about her dual life as a rock drummer and writer.
Positivity Is Relative, Depending on Which Side of the Fighting You’re On By Michelle Weber Highlight “I was not a fallen creature in a broken world reliant on grace, but a Marine in a successful army that had all the answers.”
Shackled to Twitter By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The pros and cons of building one’s brand on Twitter.
To Tell the Story, These Journalists Became Part of the Story By Martha Pskowski Feature In two recent books about immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S., the authors’ attempts to help become part of their subjects’ stories.
Letters from Trenton By Thomas Swick Feature While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
Twenty-five Years After Breaking Brandon Teena’s Story: An Apology By Katie Kosma Highlight Journalist Donna Minkowitz realizes 25 years later she was victim to her own internalized homophobia and ignorance on trans issues when she broke the story of Brandon Teena, subject of Boys Don’t Cry.
No Journalist Should Have to Know How to Survive in Prison By Alice Driver Feature After a recent trip to Myanmar, Alice Driver considers the ever-present dangers for journalists there and in Mexico, where she lives.
Why Can’t Female Reporters Stay in the Picture? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.
A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary The more work that journalists create for the internet, the more work is rendered obsolete.
My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me By Steve Almond Feature Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.
Is Journalism a Form of Activism? By Danielle Tcholakian Feature It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.
‘Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.’ By Alice Driver Feature Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.
The Internet Isn’t Forever By Maria Bustillos Feature When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
What Happened Onboard the ‘Nautilus’? By Michelle Legro Highlight May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.
Journalists Shouldn’t Be Fired for Investigating Their Own Publications By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary And everyone in this industry should speak out against it.
‘The Paper’ is the Most Essential and Overlooked Film About Journalism By Matt Giles Commentary No other film conveys the madness or the fun of deadline journalism.
An Elegy for DNAinfo, Local Media’s First Responders By Danielle Tcholakian Feature We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.
“That Was the Final Straw”: On Reporting From Venezuela as It Spiraled Downward By Ben Huberman Commentary During two chaotic weeks in July, Christian Borys chronicled the stories of young activists facing an impossible dilemma: exile or dictatorship.
The Trump Whisperer: A Conversation with Washington Post Reporter David Fahrenthold By Cody Delistraty Feature Fahrenthold on how he follows the money, “shows his work,” and solicits leads from Twitter in covering Donald Trump.
Despair All Ye Who Enter Into the Climate Change Fray By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary A climate change feature at New York Magazine leads a scientist to take on its extraordinary claims.
The Press Has Always Been a Guest in the President’s Home By Erin Blakemore Commentary And they can be thrown out at any time, for any reason.
Why Quotas Still Don’t Work for Journalism By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Quotas allow superiors to blame failure on subordinates and take credit for success.
Where Have All The White House Press Briefings Gone? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Trump’s White House is gradually eroding the tradition of daily press briefings.
Following John McPhee’s Path to ‘Oranges’ By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.
The Best of City And Regional Magazines: A Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List These features show a rigorous approach to the truth, a convergence of the of the personal and political, and excellent writing.
Longreads Just Turned 8 Years Old. Here’s What the Next Eight Years Look Like. By Mark Armstrong Commentary We’re pursuing undiscovered voices and original reporting. We’ll need your help to do it.
‘S-Town’ Host Brian Reed Talks Ethics in Journalism By Krista Stevens Highlight Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.
