The fog of war is especially thick in Syria, where access is nearly impossible for foreign journalists and accounts of the war often reach the outside world via social media. In the besieged Eastern Ghouta region, a blond, baby-faced teenager … Read more
For Dena Takruri, the power of journalism rests on its ability to give voice to the voiceless. “I’ve always been upfront about my identity and background, and it’s shaped who I am and the lens through which I see other … Read more
The next Editors’ Roundtable, which will run on Monday, looks at a story on the tornado that hit Rainsville, Ala., earlier this month. Unfortunately, tragedy has struck again, and journalists have had to write additional disaster stories about the devastation … Read more
Perhaps it’s just the nippy fall weather descending, but we have a multiplicity of crowdsourced, interactive and on-the-horizon projects. So, depending on your constitution, here are some nuggets of future-of-journalism ideas to make you itchy or jazz you up. Either … Read more
[This post is the second in a series from new media artist Peggy Nelson considering the impact of technology on narrative. Nelson’s work includes a barcode narrative, a PowerPoint essay, Twitter novels and a host of … Read more
Yesterday, Paul Raeburn at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker took the stuffing out of a New York Times medical piece. The story, by Gardiner Harris, reveals a secret recording of a 2007 meeting between a cardiologist and executives … Read more