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When journalists abroad are killed, jailed or thwarted, their colleagues around the world intervene A Southern Russian editor is murdered for opposing dictatorship. A Sri Lankan correspondent is tortured for [...]

Barry Bingham is the former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the first paper to hire an ombudsman, and was publisher of the now-defunct Fineline ethics journal. 'The press's [...]

NPR's top four hosts have different perspectives, but common respect for fair, truthful, open conversation There's more to talk radio than Rush's ratings, the I-Man's insults, Howard's body parts. While [...]

Pros who have chased the elusive piece of information that makes or breaks a story, gone after wrong-doers with sureness, and found stories where no one else was looking shared [...]

Prize-winning designer reminds that message should dictate layout Design's only goal is to get readers to the first paragraph. You can lay out an attractive page as easily as an [...]

Can't we all just get along? Perhaps. Top media executives assert that the traditional wall between business and news is actually a line that everyone benefits from respecting. Some news [...]

However small your newsroom, however great the ratings pressure, you're shirking your responsibility if you're not doing investigative reporting. That's the message of nationally recognized journalists who promise that in-depth [...]

Best-selling author McCourt explains how he found child's voice to tell story It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. - Frank McCourt, [...]

Akron University's alumni magazine sent one, People two, Maine's Casco Bay Weekly three. They came from The Charlotte Observer, The Los Angeles Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Veteran authors and [...]

Where does it begin, end, asks Faas We have met the paparazzi and they are us. Two noted photo chiefs counter the post-Diana pontificating of colleagues with comments that you [...]

Former feared Columbia teacher more relaxed but still opinonated Stop the presses! Man bites dog! Melvin Mencher mellows! Well, sort off A leading journalism text writer, the 72-year-old curmudgeon who [...]

Foreign news might seem remote, but its impact is waiting to be found in Everytown U.S.A. A global story is a local story and vice versa, so 'open your eyes [...]

News media criticized inside and out, but there arc ways to rebuild trust As debate continues over the role of the press in covering the Monica Lewinsky matter, a journalism [...]

Northeastern professor Bill Kirtz looks at most-recent situations New Republic, Boston Globe lose writers for fabrications A month after the front-page news that a writer for The New Republic had [...]

'Within a year, if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects [...]

Standards still being defined, defended Journalistic cynicism drives good people from public life. It elevates scandals into 'Watergates.' Anthony Lewis made the first point, Carl Bernstein the second. Even celebrity [...]

Don't be intimidated by scientists and experts; remember, some questions always must be asked Extra! Extra! Read all about it! California's Proposition 209, which prohibits public universities from considering race [...]

Even if you're not restless or feeling the chilly winds of cutbacks, it's wise to know what options you might have if you suddenly find yourself in Uncle Sam's SEP [...]

Bill Small has sued and been sued. He's been blamed for talent raids that skyrocketed network anchor salaries. He sees the wire service he once headed downsized to near invisibility [...]

Tired of taping sound bites, ripping and reading, wedging traffic reports between talk show breaks? Young journalists with a small purse but large ambitions should consider long-form radio. Monitor Radio [...]

It is being marketed as 'never-before-seen, uncensored news footage ... derived from outtakes of major U.S. network news broadcasts recorded by top journalists.' But there are some unanswered questions about [...]

Internet searches aren't just for special stories; routine checking can lead to big results No time? No money? They're not excuses. A quick, free Internet visit, even on deadline, can [...]

After 71 years of crusading, he's receiving thanks from colleagues and sports world Sam Lacy is slowing down. Arthritis has cramped his typing fingers. His son Tim sometimes has to [...]

Leading practitioners assess state of affairs, see tough road for journalism Young journalists are better-educated than ever. But they're getting the message that glib opinions will take them further than [...]

Clinton's former spokesman sheds light after White House days end Mike McCurry still defends his don't ask, don't tell policy during the Monica Lewinsky controversy. In his first appearance since [...]

People whose jobs arc to review focus on positives, not negatives They'd rather praise than pan. They heed the press agents they trust. They hate their power to kill. And [...]

Should quotes be read back to check accuracy, or does that open unwanted doors to pressure? Tell sources what you've written about them before your story runs? Traditionalists deem this [...]

Prominent journalists deplore 'shoddy' trends of news judgment based on profits, voyeurism Dangerous. Disastrous. A riot. Shoddy. Binge journalism. Crude and uncivil. Those words came from some of the profession's [...]

Somes tricks of the trade to liven quotes in your stories Do all the people you quote sound the same? Are they mere 'talking attributions'? Do you - or your [...]

CBS anchor decries marketing values that overwhelm some of today's newscasts Dan Rather started in 1950, at a 250-watt radio station in Huntsville, Texas. For 40 cents an hour, the [...]