I’ve covered these COPs (to be more specific, Conferences of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change) across four decades; they are simultaneously the world’s stage for talking about the most serious crisis our species has ever … Read more
Let’s start with an encouraging statistic: Despite years of demoralizing reports on sweeping media layoffs, nearly 300 new digital local news organizations have launched since 2016. That number, which comes from a 2021 study by Project … Read more
In November 2022, I saw my former home in Kyiv in flames on live TV following a Russian missile attack. Moscow was targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine to cause blackouts, often by firing up to 100 missiles at once to … Read more
Mining public records can be tedious work — especially more than 40 million of them. But as the findings finally came into focus, not even the just-the-facts questions of their veteran investigative editors could dampen the excitement of the young … Read more
When I was starting in journalism in 1999, the movie “The Insider” came out, chronicling the way 60 Minutes handled the story of a tobacco executive who blew the whistle on the industry. To a young reporter, Lowell Bergman, the … Read more
Alissa Quart, NF ’10, on the reporting behind her book “Bootstrapped” The dark inspiration for “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream” came from the news but also from my lived experience. I direct the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a … Read more
Chong-ae Lee, NF ’13, on the value of taking a step back and looking at the big picture Nearly two decades ago, I received a phone call from the news innovation editor in my newsroom, asking if I was interested in … Read more
