We're starting the New Year here at NewsLab by looking back at the year before--just as we did at this time a year ago. In 2012, our readers not only wanted practical tips, they also gravitated toward posts about the state of the news business. …
Here we go again. Two more journalists have learned lessons the hard way. If they thought their personal lives were somehow separate from their professional lives, they've had to think again. And while the two cases were vastly different, the outcome was the same. Both …
I know this is a touchy subject. Maybe I'd be smarter to leave it alone. But a piece in the new issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism and a recent exchange I had with a freelance photojournalist have me thinking again about this apparently …
Quick: What do Wynton Marsalis, Elizabeth Smart and Chelsea Clinton have in common? They have well-known names, certainly, but that's not all they share. All three are now employed by network news divisions, which speaks volumes about both the power of celebrity and the current …
More than 30 journalists in Wisconsin were discovered this week to have signed petitions for the recall of the state's controversial Republican governor, Scott Walker. The first news organization to publicly disclose its employees' involvement was Gannett, whose newspapers published a letter to readers noting this "breach …
You might think that this is yet another rant on how technology is putting pressure on journalists to publish more quickly and pushing what's published out to more people, more easily than ever before. But two things happened this week that made me think that we …
After more than a year of work, NPR has issued a revised ethics handbook to provide guidance in sticky situations. NPR has weathered quite a few of those recently, from the firing of commentator Juan Williams to the decision to stop distributing an opera program because …
Who's counting? Everybody, it seems, at this time of year. Everywhere you look, there's a top 10 list for the year's best and worst, so why should journalism be different? And why reinvent the wheel? Instead of creating our own 2011 rundown, we've put together …
How far will you go to protect the identity of sources who give you information on the condition that you not reveal their names? If you haven't thought about it, you should. Every reporter eventually runs into a story so important that it's worth getting the …
I love reading what other journalists have to say about their work and sharing their insights here, but sometimes I find myself in a bit of a quandary. What to make of this comment? "You're in the wrong job if you think that political journalists …
Whoever said news about important subjects doesn't sell? CBS News chairman Jeff Fager is happy to contradict them. The ratings for 60 Minutes, he says, make it clear that Americans are hungry for that kind of reporting. His goal now is to make the rest …
How's this for a new way to train journalists? An Australian company is working on a new first-person video game that puts players in a war zone armed only with a camera. In Warco (short for "war correspondent"), players document a conflict that echoes recent events …
