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Border newspaper stops covering cartels after repeated attacks

Joshua Gillin — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:20:31 +0000

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Escalating cartel violence in Mexico has led to bouts of self-censorship among journalists fearing reprisals, but few so prominently as Nuevo Laredo’s El Mañana, which has decided … Read more

Charles Ramsey interviews reveal risks of jumping on a good story too soon

Eric Deggans — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:30 +0000

What big media gives, it can take away just as quickly.

That’s the feeling in the air as some news outlets continue chewing over the story of Charles Ramsey, the struggling dishwasher who became a media hero and Internet sensation… Read more

How journalists can provide fair coverage when reporting on rape charge in Cleveland case

Kelly McBride — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:34:12 +0000

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

Tips for investigating a story like Cleveland’s missing women

Al Tompkins — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:21:51 +0000

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

Cleveland’s Department of Public Safety using Twitter to communicate with journalists

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:55:15 +0000

As the story of three formerly missing women in Cleveland develops Tuesday, the city’s Department of Public Safety is encouraging journalists to use Twitter to get credentialed for a press conference this morning.

Media planning to come to 9am presser
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When police wouldn’t release a gang map, Toledo Blade crime reporter drew her own

Kelly McBride — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:48:36 +0000

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

Boston Globe reporter shows how news writing can unfold ‘like a story in a book’

Roy Peter Clark — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:51:30 +0000

A story from the Boston Globe has been getting a lot of buzz, and rightly so. It was written by Eric Moskowitz, and describes the harrowing experience of a young Chinese man carjacked by the two Boston Marathon bombers. … Read more

Why The Huffington Post ran graphic photos from a gun murder

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:40:11 +0000

Bert Heyman wanted the photos of his son Chris Heyman’s 2004 gun death to have an impact on the national debate over gun laws. “He wants every part of his son’s case to matter,” Huffington Post reporter Jason Cherkis told … Read more

Compassion goes a long way when reporting on tragedies like Boston & Newtown

Genevieve Belmaker — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:01:06 +0000

Journalists are often warned about the perils of getting emotionally involved with stories and subjects, but when reporting on a tragedy there’s always room to act as a human being first and a reporter second.

Reporting on the pain of … Read more

Globe’s Tlumacki: ‘I am dealing with trauma & trying to keep busy’ following Boston tragedy

Kenneth Irby — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:34:21 +0000

On Monday, veteran photojournalist John Tlumacki captured the iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing: runner Bill Iffrig knocked to the pavement on Boylston Street in front of a trio of police officers, each seemingly headed in a different direction.… Read more