20 questions toward achieving civic clarity in your writing As the pandemic progresses with no end in sight, the goal for journalists and all public writers should be to lead the reader toward understanding. September 10, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
This is the story we need right now. And it’s written by a college freshman. Read and learn from this powerful piece about a bloodstain — and so much more — written by a 19-year-old Indiana University student. June 8, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
If reading a newspaper is a ritual, Sunday’s New York Times front page was a journalistic ritual of mourning Nothing much on that front page looked like news as we know it. It felt like a graphic representation of the tolling of bells. A litany of the dead. May 28, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
‘It’s OK to not be OK right now.’ TV anchors are setting aside the stoicism and getting personal. Anchors like CNN’s Brian Stelter and WFLA-TV’s Keith Cates have offered deeply personal essays and, with them, hope and human connection. May 13, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
Explanatory journalism is entering a golden age in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic Journalists — and experts from science, business and government — are using explanatory journalism to communicate in the public interest May 8, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
How writers give us new ways of understanding numbers A Bloomberg News column about President Trump’s ‘very good job’ preventing coronavirus deaths teaches us how to achieve civic clarity April 27, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
What civic clarity looks like in reporting the coronavirus pandemic 11 lessons from Surgeon General Jerome Adams April 15, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
