Kelly spent 14 years covering saints and sinners in Spokane, Wash. Now she's at Poynter, searching for the soul of American journalism.
Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus are household names. The three women, freed from a house in Cleveland after they were separately kidnapped as teenagers about a decade ago, are the central characters in a story that has dominated … Read more
When the Toledo Police Department refused to release a gang map that showed which gangs claimed which neighborhoods in the small city 60 miles southwest of Detroit, crime reporter Taylor Dungjen decided to create her own.
That’s the short version … Read more
The media question of the day is why the Philadelphia trial of Kermit Gosnell is not garnering national media attention.
Gosnell is a Philadelphia doctor on trial for murder for performing late-term abortions that resulted in living babies that he … Read more
When reporters want my advice about whether to grant a source anonymity, this is the question I ask them: Is your story significant enough that you’re willing to spend six months in jail?
When they’re working on a substantial story, … Read more
A little more than a year ago, BuzzFeed made the leap into the realm of serious journalism. It hired some known journalists and a lot more hungry young writers, expanded its verticals, and announced a plan to create serious content … Read more
Momentum is building against CNN for clumsy things anchors said about the teenagers convicted of rape in Steubenville, Ohio.
It’s a misplaced anger that will do nothing but further confuse the public about issues of rape and sexual assault, particularly … Read more
The debate over how much professional writers should be paid — sparked by Atlantic’s request to publish Nathan Thayer’s work without paying him — is a window into how dramatically the Internet has changed the system of creating and distributing … Read more
A photo essay vividly documenting domestic assault lit up the Internet this week after Time Magazine published it as part of its LightBox series.
Ohio University graduate student Sara Lewkowicz didn’t set out to take pictures of domestic violence. Instead, … Read more
Dave Itzkoff of the NYTimes asked me last week to look at a 30-second video of a cute little pig rescuing a cute little bleating goat that was somehow trapped in a pond.
My first reaction was: fake. Yet several … Read more