
Journalists and other fact-finders share what it takes to get at the truth, including mistakes yielding their own lessons. Approaches and tips useful on the job and in everyday life.
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Big thanks to all of you for reading my posts and providing your feedback and encouragement. But coming up on a year of mostly weekly posts, it’s time for a break.
I’ll be doing some traveling, and I’m looking forward to doing some reading...
It’s a bit late to be organizing a 60th reunion of a high school class that graduated in June 1966. But the main convener of our class, Jimmy Higgins, passed away last year in Los Angeles.
Recent Facebook chatter got things rolling, thoug...
Nobody better than Democracy Now! founder Amy Goodman to deliver in-your-face inspiration for refusing to take “No” for an answer.
(A version of this post first appeared on Poynter.org, the website of the Poynter Institute for Media Studie...
Before she died later that year, Merle asked that her ashes be scattered “someplace beautiful where nobody will mind.”
That was 16 years ago.
On Monday, we scattered her ashes someplace beautiful. Nobody will mind.
And we don’t think Mer...
As the Supreme Court considered arguments for and against Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians Wednesday, I listened from home, tuned into the court’s live audio feed on my old iMac.
It wasn’t exactly like sitting in t...
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