Journalism Ethics: Mystery desserts, midnight karma and the best story I never wrote

War was hell, and so was coming home and spilling it out to a newspaper reporter, no matter how empathetic she seemed.

Notes from a South African newsroom

But the biggest challenge for South African journalists isn’t just the Internet; it’s also illiteracy, combined with new government threats to press freedoms.

Old-school lessons for the new-media generation

What I’m describing here is a life of trying to balance family with work; balancing taking care of others with taking care of yourself. … Bad things will sometimes happen, depressing things — teenagers, for instance.

Searching out change lessons from the center of the storm

I attend at least one “future of news” panel discussion a week, and — reading between the lines spoken by the smartest people in this business — it seems that no one knows what’s ahead.

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