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How to take your journalism to new heights with a drone

How to take your journalism to new heights with a drone

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in our five-part video series, Field Testing, in which independent video producer Alexander Trowbridge retreats to a farm to learn the tools and skills…
What working on a farm taught a journalist about visual storytelling

What working on a farm taught a journalist about visual storytelling

Field Testing - Episode 1: In which our correspondent explains what he's doing in a bean field with a selfie stick
"... a fleeting fit of frustration" over the F word

“… a fleeting fit of frustration” over the F word

—Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes in a lead about a U.S. Supreme Court case
The slogging reality of writing

The slogging reality of writing

The daughter of a friend reached out to me recently, seeking a bit of advice. She’s a young millennial and, after dabbling in various dabbles, she’s come back around to…
What a retired journalist learned about re-learning to write

What a retired journalist learned about re-learning to write

First, the COVID lockdown. Then retirement.After nearly 40 years as a news professional and 10 as a journalism professor at the University of Idaho, I found myself isolated and bored.…
A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

Jose A. Del Real of The Washington Post uses phone, email and texts to profile a family torn apart by conflicting beliefs in "facts"
Taking the "student" out of student journalist

Taking the “student” out of student journalist

Remember Eddy Binford-Ross? If not, here’s your chance to catch up and collect a little inspiration.Eddy Binford-RossEddy is a senior in South Salem High School in Oregon, and editor of…
Some uncomfortable challenges facing journalism

Some uncomfortable challenges facing journalism

Some core questions I have about the challenges facing journalists were revived by a few things I read last week. None were surprising, but all carried nagging concerns that date…
Common-sense questions don't always yield common-sense answers

Common-sense questions don’t always yield common-sense answers

We invite you to spend a few moments traveling the world with photographers who, despite the risks of COVID, have remained on the front lines of storytelling. For more than…
Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of "objectivity"

Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of “objectivity”

In a final conversation at The Power of Narrative conference, Jelani Cobb and Ibram X. Kendi argue that narrative should be used to convey fuller truths