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Newspapers, once treated like members of the family, welcomed at breakfast tables and at Sunday brunch, are increasingly estranged. In Denver, the venerable Rocky Mountain News has ceased publication. In [...]

On January 22,1997, USA Today ran its customary Snapshot in the lower-left corner of Page One. Given intense feelings about the killing of animals to make fur coats, the paper's [...]

... Having been introduced to newspaper work on a thriving paper that received its United States and world reports by Morse code--when the telegraphers actually used a Prince Albert tobacco [...]

As the Syracuse Herald-Journal attempts to attract young readers through its teen correspondent program, the paper faces a set of ethical conflicts that may undermine its journalistic credibility. In October, [...]

An explosion at a Jerusalem market, triggered by a suicide bomber, leaves the street littered with debris and body parts. Among the wounded, a rescuer assists a man whose clothes [...]

When reporters write stories at read like good fiction they inevitably arouse suspicions. Reality is messy. Speech is messy. If a story is tidy--if the plot is too seamless or [...]

As a way of encouraging thoughts about how to improve the questioning process that journalists use, the founders of the Right Question Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, [...]

Walter Bender is the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Electronic Publishing Group and is a member of the laboratory's News in the Future consortium. [...]

Few words were uttered more often during this conference than 'Wall Street.' What follows are edited excerpts from various sessions, all of which focus attention on the tug that Wall [...]

Clark Gilbert, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, studies entrepreneurship in large companies. In a recent study in which he worked with Clay Christensen, who has written about [...]

I didn't fully understand what the wage gap meant for women until I was renegotiating a contract in 1994 as an overseas producer for CBS News based in London. I [...]

Newspapers are male shaped. They are testosterone fueled, knee jerk, confrontational, short term, pompous and status conscious. They are also punchy, strong, uncompromising and incisive. And they reflect the direction [...]

George Rodrigue, the panel chair, began the discussion: Are we doing an adequate job of monitoring nonprofits? The answer is--Hell, no. The IRS admits that it's doing a poor job. [...]

Joyce Purnick, the panel chair, led the discussion: We all agreed that to do the kind of reporting we're talking about, we needed not necessarily seasoned, but talented and experienced [...]

Richard Parker, the panel chair, began the discussion: It was only at the tail end of the 19th Century and the dawn of the 20th Century that you see these [...]

The question for the nation's newspapers is as stark as it is simple: will they survive? In a few years, most newspaper readers will live in homes served by the [...]

Paraphrasing Samuel Johnson, folks often say that nothing focuses the mind like the sight of the gallows. I like better the version that a friend, the head of a large [...]

When talk of a redesign of the Star Tribune began two years ago, the plan was to launch a simple remake of the newspaper. It had been eight years since [...]

What wakes you up in the middle of the night? With me, it's sometimes the dog barking or a growling stomach or perhaps a daughter with the flu, but most [...]

First off, let's address one thing: Citizen journalists don't particularly aspire to be called 'journalists.' That's a label mainstream journalists often apply when writing about this mutating media ecosystem. Many [...]

To make a transparent newsroom function requires some changes in the tasks people take on in connecting more effectively with members of the community. What follows are some brief descriptions [...]

I was interviewing Florida's director of substance abuse services by phone when an editor stood up in the middle of the newsroom and yelled in my direction, 'Anthrax! We've got [...]

You never know when disaster will strike. For Baltimore, it hit at 3:07 p.m. on July 18, 2001. It was just another sultry, summer afternoon when a diesel engine towing [...]

The Palestinian child stares emptily from the foot of a bloodstained staircase, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand, his right hand resting on a step leading to his house. [...]

This year two major events suggest a coming of age for South American science journalism and for its achieving international quality standards. In November, the Third World Conference of Science [...]

'The universe is flat so that the total density of the universe throughout is equal to the critical density.' Hmmm. Maybe this needs some more explaining. Try reading the following [...]

Once I was asked to write a caption to a photograph of a mouse with a human ear on its back. At the time, I was news and magazine editor [...]

I fell into a pleasing routine during my four years in Hanoi. Like a million or so Vietnamese, I'd get on my bike early each morning and head downtown through [...]

At about 10 o'clock in the evening of January 16, 2001, the majority of senators, acting as judges in the impeachment trial of then Philippine President Joseph Estrada, decided not [...]

No topic received as much attention as the newspaper business. Observations were interspersed throughout the various sessions. Some of those comments are now brought together in a series of edited [...]

Quality can be an elusive term. It is one that conference participants struggled to explain, define and find ways to put into practice. What follows are edited excerpts that speak [...]

Participants bad views and experiences to share about the intersection of mainstream media and the Internet. Edited excerpts of some oft hose comments follow. Conor O'Clery: Another fundamental question is [...]

Reporters who cover corporations might as well be covering the affairs of a medieval king sequestered behind castle walls and a moat. Corporations are not like city halls, county courthouses, [...]

About a decade ago in South Africa, when apartheid was already on its deathbed, Mamphela Ramphele, then a university professor, spearheaded a study on employment equity at the University of [...]

Jay Harris brought editors to their feet at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in April with an on-target attack on the profit pressures that make [...]

In the media maelstrom that followed Jay Harris's resignation as publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, writers and critics most often have framed the issue behind his leaving as [...]

When Terry Martin answers the telephone at work, the pounding bass beat of loud hip-hop music reverberates in the telephone. His job, operating Hatley's Roller Rink in Monroe, N.C., is [...]

The death of newspapers has long been reported by newspapers. In fact, the newspaper has died many times only to be reinvented technologically, editorially, and financially. But this time it [...]

Readers' Caution Exceeds Editors' The reading public, so we are told, increasingly distrusts and dislikes the press; when it comes to credibility, journalists are right up there (or down there) [...]

Last summer, in a small town in central New Hampshire, the local police conducted an undercover operation at a state highway rest area. The spot was known for gay trysts, [...]

`The mirrorer was viewed as fat to be trimmed, and was.' Reporters, who are in the best position to pick up the sentiments of readers and would-be readers, often complain [...]

Editors at The Oregonian make writers pause and verify before publication. My copy editor colleague was blunt: 'I'm going to need proof that these people exist and that this is [...]

At its sister newspaper, The Miami Herald, news judgments are different. 'Jubilo en Miami'--Joy in Miami--read a front-page headline in El Nuevo Herald during the height of the Elian Gonzalez [...]

In Savannah, a newspaper trains community members to be journalists. Steve Corrigan, editor of the Closeups section of the Savannah Morning News, stood beside me, giving slight nods as he [...]

--1964-- Dan Wakefield's 1992 book, 'New York in the 50's,' has been adapted and turned into a movie of the same name. 'New York in the 50's' documents Wakefield's time [...]

The Savannah Morning News creates the Neighborhood Newsroom. At the Savannah Morning News, are taking a not-so-revolutionary approach to diversifying our newsroom. In fact, in keeping with Savannah's fascination with [...]

At The San Diego Union-Tribune, community experiences become stories. Curiosity should be the first trait that newspaper editors screen for when they consider reporter applicants. A curious reporter stops for [...]