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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.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.

How a USA Today team helped a woman search her ancestral roots in Angola, home to the first Africans sold into slavery in what would become the U.S.

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…

Podcaster and journalist Evan Ratliff, author of "The Mastermind," on why he is drawn to stories of the "bad guys"

It was probably aimed more at the American public than its media, but one message embedded in former Ambassador William B. Taylor Jr.’s recent prepared remarks to a Congressional impeachment…