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Most journalists now understand they need to engage with audiences, whether online or in person. But it’s still not clear how news organizations can measure whether their attempts at engagement are paying off.
“Engagement isn’t just Twitter, Facebook or social … 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
Before I tackle what made Roger Ebert a good writer, I’d like to tell a story about why he was a good colleague and good person. It was 1978 and I was spending the year as a substitute film writer … Read more
Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling projects for six years. We were often working with … Read more
All big political wars are fought more often with words than with weapons.
Your “terrorist,” so the saying goes, is my “freedom fighter.”
Your “illegal alien” may be my “undocumented worker.”
You’ve run spell-check and closely studied your story. Your editors have done the same and the copy desk — the last line of defense against mistakes — has scrutinized every word and line to ensure error-free copy.
And then the … Read more
Jessica Parks sounded the alarm, rattling my smartphone as I drove to Stanford University. Before dawn that morning, she said, a worker at a nearby cement plant shot 10 people with a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun. Police were searching … Read more
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It is time to decriminalize certain practices now … Read more
Scott Elliott, incoming president of the Education Writers Association, is the education reform reporter at The Indianapolis Star.
That’s a pretty unusual job title and a beat that Elliott pretty much carved out himself. During a live chat, … 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