So often, journalists are quick to dismiss stories that have been done before, especially those that have been written over and over again. But what if you could take a subject everyone has known about for years—an open secret—and … Read more
Last November, Anna Merlan got an unexpected e-mail from Domino’s Pizza. The pizzas she ordered were ready, and she could pay for them in cash when they were delivered. The problem was, she hadn’t ordered pizza, and she no … Read more
Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, is used to generating controversy with his reviews. Yet the Donald Trump outburst that followed Kamin’s critique of the enormous sign the developer put on his Chicago … Read more
“It was a success in every dimension except the one we thought it would be.” That’s Daniel Jacobson’s tweet-length summary of his experience, in 2008, opening up a hefty selection of NPR’s vast resources to any software developer anywhere in … Read more
This happened in a roundabout sort of way. I had spent time with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, but many journalists did far more embeds and saw far more fighting. Most of my reporting around conflict involved … Read more
