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It took seven hours before she gave me the phrase “survivor’s guilt” to describe what I felt. She, a former war correspondent who covered the Iraq War for more than […]
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1y ago
This article was originally published by Journalism.co.uk and is republished here with permission. How do I make hard facts — about pandemics, wars, natural disasters, social justice — easy reading? […]
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1y ago
George Santos won election to Congress in New York last November — but he probably never would have been able to win a school board seat in Maryland. That’s because […]
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1y ago
When Alejandra Molina speaks with someone as part of her job as a reporter with Religion News Service, things can get pretty deep. “It’s common to have sources and people […]
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1y ago
I’m guessing you’ve seen the news out of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, where the publisher of the McCurtain Gazette-News recorded a conversation between four local officials that, well, I’m not sure […]
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1y ago
Just before the pandemic hit in 2020, my publisher Little, Brown issued my book “Murder Your Darlings,” which happens to be a writing book about writing books. I have access […]
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1y ago
Just five years ago, Isabelle Khurshudyan was covering hockey for The Washington Post. Her job took her to cool (and safe) places such as Vancouver, Southern California and New York. […]
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1y ago
Local news is in a crisis — there is no question about it. The revenue model has blown up, and national chains have eviscerated local news organizations, firing reporters and […]
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1y ago
Across the United States local journalists are attempting to reform their approach to covering crime, moving away from “If it bleeds, it leads” and toward explanatory and accountability reporting. Newsrooms […]
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1y ago
Roy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing. Clark, a senior scholar at Poynter, had already written or edited 20 books about reading, writing and […]
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