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The Department of Justice’s seizure of two months’ worth of Associated Press phone records stinks. It smells like retribution against the AP for its May 2012 report about how the CIA foiled a bomb plot that targeted a U.S.-bound aircraft … Read more
How do you dig up information in a story like the one unfolding in Cleveland when all you know is three women missing for nearly a decade suddenly escaped their captors? When the story broke, government offices were closed, the … Read more
Boston journalists were awake through the night as they covered the tragic news unfolding in and around their city.
As the country awakes today, it will discover that the person who police believe is “Suspect #1″ in the Boston bombing … Read more
The New York Post is running a front page headline “Bag Men” with what is reported to be an image of men it says feds are looking for. One of the young men in the Post’s front-page image has since … Read more
In the days ahead, journalists will need to be excellent as they cover the aftermath of the Boston Marathon explosions, which have injured more than 100 people and left three dead.
Here are some ingredients of excellence, along with … Read more
Investigative Reporters and Editors’ list of 2012 award winners, released Wednesday, honors journalists who exposed shoddy care for the elderly and mentally ill, spotlighted inept and corrupt government officials, discovered a broken school truancy system, found … Read more
The Canadian TV network CTV has an in-depth news magazine program called “W5,”which has been on the air since 1966, two years longer than “60 Minutes.” It deals with serious, sometimes sobering topics. But when the show told the story … Read more
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments about the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. Yesterday, the court considered whether states can ban same-sex marriage.
You can read tweets about these historic hearings as the … Read more
The Huffington Post has compiled and mapped news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
For 98 days, a team of Huffington Post researchers scanned news reports from around the … Read more
Some journalists are starting to renew attention to an old storytelling form — “the one-shot” technique.
Rather than editing together dozens or even hundreds of shots to tell a video story, the one-shot story uses just one shot, sometimes a … Read more