Archive: Dec 2007

Going Far to Explore a Local Story

By Kevin Finch• Local News• December 15, 2007

‘The currency common to these assignments was the thread of local connections stretching from Indiana to overseas and back in news stories we broadcast.’ Read more

Global Issues Viewed Through Local Eyes

By Perry Beeman• Local News• December 15, 2007

New media—and new ‘newsroom’ arrangements—combine to make local coverage of environmental issues compelling and personal. Read more

Changing Reporters’ Beats—With a Focus on Local

By Rene Sanchez• Local News• December 15, 2007

‘… we need to demonstrate in our pages and on our Web site that local journalism does not mean insular, shallow content.’ Read more

Blending Voice and Reporting

By John Doherty and Tim Logan• Local News• December 15, 2007

‘… stories conveyed a definite point of view, and the voice we used shared our perspective throughout their telling.’ Read more

Confronting ‘The Health Care World of Want’

By Susan Dentzer• Nieman Notes• December 15, 2007

A trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in a journalist’s determination to find ways to report on the devastation she now knows exists. Read more

The People and Spirit of McClellan Street

By David Turnley and Peter Turnley• Nieman Notes• December 15, 2007

Two brothers photographed life in a working-class neighborhood and found ‘kinship and camaraderie.’ Read more

Hidden Codes and Competitive Trickery

By Robert H. Phelps• Opinion• December 15, 2007

In a coffee-table book, Associated Press correspondents and photographers describe what they and their colleagues did to be first with the news. Read more