21st-century censorship January 5, 2015 By Philip Bennett and Moises Naim Governments around the world are using stealthy strategies to manipulate the media
Jesse Brown punctures Canada’s media bubble January 5, 2015 By Simon Liem The independent journalist uses his website and podcast to break stories that might otherwise go unpublished
The importance of protecting freelancers January 5, 2015 By Alexis Sobel Fitts James Foley’s murder thrust GlobalPost into the middle of an industry-wide debate about the ethics of working with the inexperienced, poorly paid freelancers who increasingly cover the world’s wars
Leaving Kolkata January 5, 2015 By Christie Chisholm Photographer Ashok Sinha captures the tiny and disappearing Jewish community in his hometown
Jill Abramson on putting the public interest first December 22, 2014 By Jill Abramson Defying the White House, from the Pentagon Papers to Snowden
Mathias Döpfner, digital counterrevolutionary November 20, 2014 By Corey Pein Axel Springer chief predicts US will eventually join Europe in the fight against the dominance of Google, Facebook, and other tech titans
Embedding with a homeless family October 31, 2014 By Christie Chisholm Joe Amon of The Denver Post talks about his experience
When scams make headlines October 31, 2014 By Steven Bodzin What should news outlets do when it becomes clear they’ve treated scams as legitimate stories?
Ferguson before #Ferguson October 31, 2014 By Lawrence Lanahan Behind every Michael Brown is a story of structural racism waiting to be told
How the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affected journalists October 30, 2014 By Jared Malsin Last summer’s Gaza war pushed reporters to their mental and physical limits
The case for Huffington Post’s crowdfunded reporting job October 30, 2014 By Ben Adler Let the people pay
Is Ari Melber the future of cable-news anchors? October 30, 2014 By Alyson Krueger The MSNBC rising star is a lawyer-turned-journalist who wants to solve problems, not shout about them
Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat October 29, 2014 By Chris Ip The Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism
How civic hackers are helping local journalism September 3, 2014 By Rui Kaneya In Chicago, the practice goes back long before "open data" became a buzzword
Do you know Elise Andrew? September 2, 2014 By Alexis Sobel Fitts The creator of the Facebook page "I f*cking love science" is journalism’s first self-made brand
Gun Crisis Reporting Project uncovers despair September 2, 2014 By Dan Eldridge The Philadelphia-based nonprofit provides a behind-the-scenes look at gun-assisted crime
What science can tell sportswriters about why we love sports September 2, 2014 By Eric Simons There’s something special about a winning team
Can news literacy grow up? [Updated] September 2, 2014 By Lindsay Beyerstein After a decade, the movement tries to prove its worth
Kyiv Post‘s unlikely success September 2, 2014 By Oliver Bullough An editor from Minnesota and a Pakistani billionaire are riding the story of their lives as Ukraine unravels
Qaddafi couldn’t stop this reporter September 2, 2014 By Manisha Aryal Abdullah Aboathba risks his life to be a journalist in Libya
Bowe Bergdahl, Pat Tillman, and the media’s problem with simplifying soldiers September 2, 2014 By Vanessa M. Gezari Why it’s problematic for the press to define heroes or traitors
Has climate change become a business story? September 2, 2014 By Robert S. Eshelman The cost of brushing science aside
From the archives: The Times and the Jews July 23, 2014 By Neil Lewis A vocal segment of American Jewry has long believed that the paper has been unfair to Israel. Here’s why–and why they’re wrong.
Brick by brick July 1, 2014 By Michael Canyon Meyer After years of shrinking ambition at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has the paper thinking global domination
Google Glass vs. Google Hoax July 1, 2014 By Edirin Oputu Can you tell which of these stories about the gadget are true and which are false?
The toy department shall lead us July 1, 2014 By Sara Morrison Why sports media have always been newsroom innovators
Are we journalists first? July 1, 2014 By Alexis Fitts and Nicola Pring The longstanding debate about whether and when a reporter can intervene in a story is rekindled in the age of inequality
Journalism’s bright future (is a lie?) July 1, 2014 By The Editors Slate’s Jacob Weisberg and Harper’s John R. MacArthur on the new world