I can’t remember his name now, but I remember the abject fear of getting something wrong and having to face his wrath — the classic editorial anger meted out to a journalist who got a fact wrong, misspelled someone’s name, … Read more
Bob Woodward made the wrong choice. He should have alerted the public that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was lying about the coronavirus. He was in a position to give the American public … Read more
If you are looking at this reckoning on race and trying to change your newsroom, I ask you to do something harder: Take a critical look at yourself. There are no easy answers to solve for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read more
David Barboza, NF ’16, is turning information gathered by his journalists into a database for companies During much of my time working as a journalist at The New York Times, I kept asking myself the same question: what do I … Read more
As an uprising against racism and discrimination swept across the nation’s newsrooms in recent months, one of the issues raised at many of the organizations in upheaval was pay equity. At The Philadelphia Inquirer, where executive editor Stan Wischnowski … Read more
Every journalist needs to imagine a reader, someone to tell the story to. Of course, we all want many, many readers but keeping at least one person in mind during the writing process can help keep engaging prose from veering … Read more
