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1. Feature

   Tenacious

   November 30, 2011 06:00 AM

   Washington Post reporter Dana Priest says she has always had an insatiable curiosity. At age six, she liked climbing the fences between houses in her neighborhood, looking into people’s backyards to see what was going on. In... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up

   March 9, 2011 10:20 AM

   This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things Considered, I might open with some audio: the sound of applause. The clapping would come from hundreds of employees... Continue reading

3. Feature

   See It Now!

   September 23, 2010 06:00 AM

   As the video begins, no announcer welcomes you, no headline scrolls across the computer screen. There is no need for either. You know where you are from the logic of the images. The camera lingers on the anticipatory expressions... Continue reading

4. Feature

   The New Investigators

   May 11, 2010 08:00 AM

   At a story meeting for California Watch, the nonprofit investigative news startup, employees sit around a conference table as Robert Salladay, the organization’s senior editor, begins to describe the findings of a six-month investigation by one of... Continue reading

5. Feature

   NPR Amps Up

   March 4, 2010 08:00 AM

   If I were writing this story for All Things Considered, I might open with some audio: the sound of applause. The clapping would come from hundreds of employees gathered for an all-staff meeting at National Public Radio’s downtown Washington... Continue reading

6. Feature

   Time the Conquerer

   January 19, 2010 08:00 AM

   I sat through plenty of official focus groups in my years as a Washington Post assistant managing editor, watching people on the other side of a one-way mirror read and comment on my newspaper. The sessions were often excruciating,... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   Bringing It All Back Home

   December 2, 2009 02:24 PM

   Beltway politicians and bureaucrats love to generalize about “the American people”—who they are, what they want, how they feel about federal policy. Now that The Washington Post has decided to close its last three national bureaus, in New... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   MinnPost Turns Two

   November 9, 2009 03:02 PM

   Those agonizing over the future of local news may take heart at the success of MinnPost.com, the online news site founded by former Minneapolis Star Tribune publisher Joel Kramer, which turned two on Sunday. The nonprofit... Continue reading