By Audrey Thibert This guide was originally prepared by student fellow Isaac Alter in 2018. It was updated in March 2023 by student fellow Audrey Thibert. More than 50 international studies have found that certain …
Feature articles
Director Katy Culver weighs in on Sandy Hook defamation case
Covering extremism in the digital era: A Q&A with Joel Christopher
Journalists have always had to grapple with how to cover extremists and hate-filled ideologies. But in today’s digital world, and with experts warning about the threat of white supremacy and far-right extremism, journalists are taking …
Doing no harm: the call for crime reporting that does justice to the beat
If you ask Carroll Bogert, crime news in the U.S. is broken. Building off renewed interest in the Central Park Five case spurred by Ava Duvernay’s Netflix series “When They See Us,” Bogert attacked …
Left out: freelance journalists have no recourse against sexual harassment
Despite high-profile firings and policy changes after the #MeToo movement swept through newsrooms, a subset of news professionals often remains unprotected, largely unheard from and without recourse in cases of sexual misconduct: freelance journalists. …
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Director Katy Culver reports on what’s keeping nurses out of health news
Why should I tell you?: a guide to less-extractive reporting
“Not good enough”: gender imbalance drives efforts to use women as sources more often
Journalism has a gender problem. In 2019, according to the Women’s Media Center’s Status of Women in the U.S. Media report, men accounted for 63 percent of bylines and other credits in print, Internet, …
When news orgs cover their own scandals; media critics weigh in
As #MeToo accusations mounted against a number of high-profile media figures in 2017 and 2018, organizations faced questions of how sexual harassment and assault could fester unaddressed. But for individual journalists, particularly those who …