Tag: journalism

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.

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.

After a recent trip to Myanmar, Alice Driver considers the ever-present dangers for journalists there and in Mexico, where she lives.

Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.

An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.

He’s not very good at his job.

The more work that journalists create for the internet, the more work is rendered obsolete.

Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the ‘bad stories’ he believes delivered our country to the Trump era.

It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.

Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.

And everyone in this industry should speak out against it.

No other film conveys the madness or the fun of deadline journalism.

We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.

During two chaotic weeks in July, Christian Borys chronicled the stories of young activists facing an impossible dilemma: exile or dictatorship.

Fahrenthold on how he follows the money, “shows his work,” and solicits leads from Twitter in covering Donald Trump.

A climate change feature at New York Magazine leads a scientist to take on its extraordinary claims.

And they can be thrown out at any time, for any reason.

Quotas allow superiors to blame failure on subordinates and take credit for success.

Trump’s White House is gradually eroding the tradition of daily press briefings.

Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.

These features show a rigorous approach to the truth, a convergence of the of the personal and political, and excellent writing.

We’re pursuing undiscovered voices and original reporting. We’ll need your help to do it.

Katie Kilkenny interviews S-Town host Brian Reed on ethics and his approach to reporting on the popular investigative podcast.

All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.

At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”

When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.

As the president sucks up the oxygen from the media atmosphere, it’s easy to forget how important local journalism is right now. The regional press—the holy trinity of newspapers, alt-weeklies, and city magazines—is where we can find true stories of friends and neighbors impacted by immigration raids, fights over funding public education, and the frontline […]

After living and working abroad as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, Jim Yardley returns to the United States to see, with his own eyes, how the country has changed.