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After a gunman fatally shot a professor on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Aug. 28, the editors of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student n [...]

Last November, Ukrainians began occupying Kiev's Maidan square, demanding closer ties to the European Union and an end to government corruption. In February, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych hastily abandoned his [...]

The Indianapolis Star investigation that led to the imprisonment of Dr. Larry Nassar began with a tip. In March 2016 a source suggested that reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski look at how [...]

Four days after Christmas in December 2001, National Machinery Company workers read in disbelief the headlines in their local newspaper that their factory, a cornerstone of Tiffin, Ohio, abruptly closed. [...]

As issues of misinformation, polarization, and disengagement remain rampant in the U.S. and abroad, how are journalists working to foster civil discourse and understanding? A white paper put together by [...]

Oh, how I sometimes envy Harry. Harry Rosenfeld was an honored predecessor of mine. When he became editor of the Times Union in the late 1970's, he was about the [...]

Suddeutsche Zeitung investigative journalist Frederik Obermaier on coordinating global reporting projects, parsing complex documents, and influencing how companies conduct business IN EARLY NOVEMBER, close to 400 journalists in nearly 70 [...]

It is no longer unusual for a husband and a wife to work on the same newspaper, sometimes with one in charge of the other. At a Nieman Foundation seminar [...]

As I WATCHED MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE racially charged shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida earlier this year, I found myself thinking about sensitivity and respect. Those issues were [...]

It is not easy to do anything for the first time when working for a newspaper founded in 1889. The more I think about the long history of my paper, [...]

OUR FAMILY-OWNED newspaper, the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, is an exception to the corporate media strategy of squeezing out every last cent of the brand until it has no value left. [...]

Richard F. Shepard Times Books. 373 Pages. $30. For those who believe The New York Times to be a stodgy, shuf fling gray lady, Richard F. Shepard's 'The Paper's Papers: [...]

Being an investigative reporter used to be a lonely job. You rarely talk about your story to colleagues in your newsroom, let alone a journalist from another publication. You guard [...]

The Twentieth Century Fund has done us all a great favor. It has reduced to a slim, paperbound volume one of the enduring public debates that has confounded policy makers [...]

The performance of the press during the Vietnam War remains a controversy that historians continue to appraise in their efforts to determine why the bitter conflict was lost. Author Clarence [...]

The article offers information on involvement of author in the investigation and the publication of news related to Panama Papers. Topics discussed include data on company registries of 19 tax havens and offshore providers; role of International Consortium of Investigative Journalist in managing and analyzing massive amounts of data and coordinating communication between journalists; and disguising their identity by customers of law firm Mossack Fonseca.

AFTER A STRING OF BREAKING NEWS that stretched over weeks, an uneasy calm had finally settled over Madison, Wisconsin, by early March 2011. A month earlier Governor Scott Walker had [...]

HANGING PROMINENTLY IN THE LOBBY of The Baltimore Sun building is a black and white photo of the legendary H.L. Mencken. Along with his visage is this quote: 'As I [...]

I went to Bud's Gun Shop to pick out a pistol because, quite frankly, I thought my reporting might get me killed. It was January 2010, and for the past [...]

It's a moment I never saw coming when I studied journalism in college. Here I was in Rwanda watching scientists sort chimp poop--and thinking about how I was going to [...]

Two years ago, I began a grand experiment on the Internet--I launched a blog called Pharmalot to focus on the pharmaceutical industry, which I had been following for more than [...]

The article focuses on the issue of freedom of the press in Ghana. It informs that journalists face risks of arrest, detention, and torture from state agencies like the police, military, secret service, and political operatives of ruling parties. It also pays attention to the need to take action and to guarantee the safety of media in the country by the government.

The article discusses, the weighty issues our society is grappling with won't be resolved without talking about them. But I also believe there's something that needs to factor heavily into our reporting, especially at the local outlets where our subjects are more connected to us than at the national level: grace and empathy.

Frederik Obermaier is featured in the Alex Winter-directed documentary 'The Panama Papers,' which was released in October and is being screened around Europe and North America. Obermaier and his Siiddeutsche [...]

The article examines research conducted at the University of Missouri journalism school on the use of electronic paper devices (EPDs) as a substitute for the traditional printed newspaper. Students were asked to evaluate the EPDs as a means of reading newspaper stories compared to using microcomputers to access the newspaper's Web site. The EPDs were rated highly for ease of use by the students, who found them comparable or even preferable to microcomputers with which they were more familiar. The study group also showed relatively little interest in color images and video presented on the EPDs, a finding that runs counter to the belief of many in newspaper management that such features are essential.

Presents an excerpt from the book `The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times,' by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones.

The article focuses author's experience as an editor and publisher where author tries to bring the right mix of sensibilities to the challenging financial times facing newspaper. Author presents his obligation to find a path to a more stable financial future, to look for creative ways to fund our journalism; and presents comment on getting a stable source of revenue from subscribers. Author also comments on his job job to be sure their readers and advertisers feel the same way.

During the next few years, the migration of news media to the Internet will start to become a background reality, a given. Paper publishing will still be around, as will [...]

The article focuses on the decision of Mark Jurkowitz to leave his post as associate director of the Pew Research Center's Journalism Project to buy "Outer Banks Sentinel," a weekly newspaper in North Carolina. Topics mentioned include his belief that community weeklies remain as strong franchises in the U.S. newspaper industry, differences in journalistic standards for community newspapers, and debates between print and digital platform.

Jerome Aumente conducted workshops in economic reporting last summer in Belgrade and Nis in Serbia for print and electronic journalists. The last time he was in Serbia was in 1998 [...]

The article announces several awards from the Nieman Foundation, including the 2015 Lukas Prize Project awards to journalists Jenny Nordberg, Harold Holzer and Dan Egan.

'Adapt or Die' is the headline on an article from American Journalism Review posted on the bulletin board at the weekly newspaper I edit. Golly gigabyte, that sounds serious. Life's [...]

The article reveals that journalist Jerome Aumente has completed two programs in Spring 2007 for journalists visiting the U.S. from the Middle East and from East Asian countries with significant Islamic populations. He published the book "From Ink on Paper to the Internet: Past Challenges and Future Transformations for New Jersey's Newspapers" which looks at the history of the newspapers and the challenges they face to reinvent themselves in the digital age of the Internet. Also, he will help conduct special panels and a symposium on the future of journalism education and media transformations in the digital age at the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

The article discusses the issues that confront university mass media and its clashes against school administration. It mentions the effects of school papers going online as it causes for the school publication to expand beyond the campuses and school cafeterias. It cites the issue on the school paper of University of North Carolina being hypersensitive.