A Moment of Deep Sorrow on the U.S.-Mexican Border
In January 2024, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from her Los Angeles home to the California-Mexico border town of Jacumba. The month before, U.S. law enforcement had...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Execution of AP Reporter Joseph Morton During WW2
“Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany“ (Columbia University Press March 2024) tells the story of how the largest news wire serving American newspapers covered the Nazis after...
View ArticleWant to Reach Gen. Z? Prioritize Young Voices
My college roommate gets her news from a talking fish on TikTok. And she’s not the only one. The “Talking Fish News” has 325,000 followers, and it is one of many accounts playing off of the beloved...
View ArticleIn Illinois, Two Bills Aim to Put Reporters Back into Communities
What makes Steve Stadelman, an Illinois state senator, so concerned about local news? It’s not just his 25-year career in local broadcast media, which he left to enter politics in 2013. Stadelman says...
View ArticleSpotlighting Underserved Communities in Ohio
Olivera Perkins, NF ’08, is redefining the economics beat at Signal Cleveland Chillingly high inflation was still in effect when Signal Cleveland, the nonprofit news organization, went online in late...
View ArticleA History of the AR-15
Cameron McWhirter, NF ’07, on the reporting behind the book “American Gun” Zusha Elinson and I are reporters for The Wall Street Journal. He works out of San Francisco; I work out of Atlanta. We’ve...
View Article‘Social Media is a Crime Scene’
As one of the world’s leading experts on media manipulation and disinformation, Joan Donovan studies the darker side of the internet — online threats, conspiracy theories, extremist rhetoric, to name...
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‘Unparalleled and Unprecedented’
Ten years ago, AP photographer Anya Niedringhaus died in Afghanistan, shot dead in her car by a fanatical police officer who also badly wounded her close friend, AP journalist Kathy Gannon. Killings...
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Standing Up to Corruption and Violence
I became a journalist in 2009 for one reason: I wanted to focus my work in a field that promoted social justice. Prior to that, I was working in technology, a much more lucrative field given the...
View ArticleAfter the Flood
The heavy rain had been pounding for three days straight. I peered through the raindrops running down my window as streaks of lightning crackled and thunder echoed in the distance above the...
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