By Bart Pfankuch In the COVID-19 era, many more journalists are working from home, some enjoying the freedom, a few discovering the difficulties and most hopefully avoiding the traps. As someone who has worked from home for nearly three years, and who spent five years lightly supervised in a capital …
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This is a story about a skirmish in the eternal struggle for information between reporters and the governments they cover, and about the value of professional journalism. The story begins on March 13, when Gov. Steve Sisolak declared a state of emergency and ordered non-essential businesses closed until the threat …
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By Bart Pfankuchj As journalists, we all seek to be objective when it comes to news coverage. Producing balanced, unbiased reporting has never been more critical. And yet, true objectivity is difficult to obtain, particularly when the best journalism is also probing, critical and focused on complex, multi-pronged problems. Therefore, …
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Rallies, campaign events, protests—they are all part of the election beat, and they are also potential flashpoints for the journalists covering them. During elections, journalists are at increased risk of attack, arrest, and physical or digital harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. Ahead of the U.S. presidential election …
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The Reynolds Journalism Institute is looking for people who have journalism challenges they want to tackle and have a project idea that could benefit not only themselves and their organization, but the industry. RJI Fellowship projects typically devise new strategies or models for solving a problem, build new tools, …
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) recently received a grant from the Knight Foundation to hire lawyers to provide pro bono legal support for journalists in up to five jurisdictions. The goal of the Washington-based nonprofit’s Local Legal Initiative is “to help local journalists and news organizations …
Read More »Awards program accepting entries Gainesville, Fla. — The Collier Prize for State Government Accountability is now accepting entries for the $25,000 prize, one of the largest journalism prizes in the nation. Information about the prize and how to submit entries is available on the Collier Prize site. The University of …
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By Bart Pfankuch Whether writers realize it or not, we hear voices in our heads. And often, listening to them is a sensible thing to do and not a symptom of insanity. I speak not of voices of ghosts or those generated by an overactive psyche. Rather, they are the …
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