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Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers. (And full disclosure: I’m one of…

 Last month, journalist, filmmaker and military veteran Zack Baddorf made a plea, in an essay for Nieman Reports, that more veterans consider careers in journalism and more newsrooms hire veterans.…

Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers.My editor at the City News Bureau…

Editor’s note: As promised, we will spend December offering brief daily notes from fellow journalists about something or someone they are grateful for in their career. Here is the starter sampler from…

Journalists take a moment to remember what they're thankful for: from editors to decent pay help.

Four centuries ago this year, a privateer named the White Lion anchored off Point Comfort, an English colony in what is now Hampton, Virginia. In its cramped hold, it carried…

Defining a writer’s “voice” has always stumped me. It came up again recently, when a journalism professor put me on speaker phone with her class of college freshmen, who had…

The Power of Storytelling: A journalist and novelist with a painful legacy picks up threads of the family story she's never known how to write

— Margaret Atwood, from her dystopian novel "The Testaments"

The Internet of 2019 is rife with social-media influencers and articles about them. Much of the coverage is fawning and superficial: how to become one, how to make $3,000  per Instagram…