I recently saw a tweet pleading, “We need more minorities in journalism.” As a minority former journalist, this struck a nerve. I remembered when I was five years into the business working in Boulder, ...

Breaking news! “Tiger Woods Cheating Scandal!” Two days before the Tiger Woods car crash on November 27, 2009 the National Enquirer jumped on a possible scoop that did not disappear. Mainstream media ...

Sometime early next month, I will formally retire from the practice of law after 26 years at the bar, including more than 21 years as a full- or part-time newsroom attorney. 1 As I do this, I want to ...

Misinformation thrives when local news dies. Local news is critical to keeping residents informed and holding government officials accountable. But thanks to dominant tech companies like Google and ...

Argentina's daily newspaper, La Nación, is on a mission to take data journalism to the next level. A year ago, it was well on its way: it had put together a data team, led by Momi Peralta Ramos, that ...

Tom Brokaw made the following remarks at the annual award dinner for the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The dinner was held on Oct. 4, 2004 in New York City. Here is some of what I have ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The independent student newspaper that gave both of us our start in journalism is now gone—its board secretly voted to ...

LAKE STEVENS — One by one, the headlines were rejected. "Disillusioned by Cowards" — too long, the editor figured. "Beyond Reality" — didn’t make sense "because it was reality," he said. "Why?" was ...