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Virginia Street at McFarland Street, circa 1912. The Charleston Daily Mail, at left, moved across the street in 1927 into the building it currently occupies. (Archival image from Charleston Gazette-Mail / Courtesy of James D. Scarbro Jr.)

Americas

Despite a sale and layoffs, West Virginia newspaper continues its tradition of ‘sustained outrage’

CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This town’s daily newspaper, the Gazette-Mail, is housed in a classic 1920s building made of...

May 09, 2018

A Sisi banner hangs in Cairo. After a democratic election in 2012 that put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, Sisi led a coup that overthrew the democratically-elected president, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-democracy demonstrators. (Roger Anis/GroundTruth)

Rights

Egyptian citizens, journalists face worsening restrictions on expression under Sisi regime

In 2011, when Egypt was pulsating with post-revolution possibility, I received a grant from the Pulitzer Center to...

May 03, 2018

With the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, reporters will be quoting poll results. Here's a checklist to assess the quality of polls and surveys. (OSCE/Flickr)

Navigator

A checklist for assessing polls and surveys

Polls and surveys can be an important resource to understand how people feel about hot button issues. But...

May 02, 2018

The debate on immigration has become extremely polarized. How do you write stories that say something new? Find people who've never been asked about their experiences. Pictured: protesters in Boston's Copley Square on Jan. 29, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order known as the "Muslim ban." (Photo by Giulia Afiune/GroundTruth)

Navigator

Two Los Angeles Times reporters have this advice for improving your immigration reporting

We asked Cindy Carcamo, the immigration reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Anh Do, who covers Asian-American...

Apr 17, 2018

BarbiAnn Maynard, a Martin County resident and an activist for clean water. (Will Wright/Report for America)

Environment

During a water crisis, residents embrace reporters as allies

INEZ, Kentucky — In this sleepy town in rural Martin County, in the heart of coal country, residents...

Apr 10, 2018

Katie Sartoris and her team had to search through boxes of archived cases to find the jury verdict records for the prisoners on Florida's death row. Pictured, the Florida Supreme Court. (jmv0586/Flickr Creative Commons)

Navigator

How a small team created a high-impact data reporting project

We’ve talked in the past about spreadsheets and public records for data journalism. You don’t have to be...

Apr 03, 2018

A scene from the red light district in Angeles City, Philippines. In their work on human trafficking victims and survivors, our climate fellows worked through NGOs to meet some of their sources. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The GroundTruth Project)

Navigator

Finding sources who ‘live in the shadows’

One important service of journalism is giving voice to the most vulnerable people in society. Phillip Martin, an...

Mar 21, 2018

Reindeer herding families gather at this corral in northern Sweden to mark their calves. (Camilla Andersen/GroundTruth)

Navigator

Reporting responsibly on suicide and mental illness

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. If you...

Mar 07, 2018

Kim Wall's reporting on the Marshall Islands was published by Mashable this week. She worked on the project in 2014 and 2015 with her colleagues Coleen Jose and Jan Hendrik Hinzel. (Photo by Coleen Jose)

Environment

Remembering Kim Wall and celebrating her last stories from the Marshall Islands

Last weekend, I spent a couple hours out at sea in Turkey reading my dear friend May Jeong’s...

Mar 01, 2018

It can to strike the right balance between having a personality and maintaining journalistic standards in your social media presence. Pictured, President Barack Obama addresses student journalists at College Reporter Day on April 26, 2016. (Pete Souza/The White House)

Navigator

How to discover your voice on social media (without undermining your journalism)

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. The rules...

Feb 21, 2018

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