9 best practices for publishing provocative opinions in a polarized world
Clashes between professional provocateurs and the masses, like the recent criticism that rained down on Washington Post columnist George F. Will over #survivorprivilege, are on the rise. See...
View ArticleAdvice on publishing graphic photos from Iraq
It’s just a matter of time. That’s what I told a Kalish Visual Editing workshop on the campus of Ball State University just last week. I told the group that it was a matter of time before they were...
View ArticleEgg donation, first conceived as personal essay, becomes investigative report
When Sarasota Herald Tribune business reporter Justine Griffin set out to donate her eggs, her editors asked her to consider doing a personal essay. What she discovered during the year-long journey is...
View ArticleTime clarifies: Ruined images in D-Day video were photo illustration
After two stories questioning the authenticity of what looked like ruined images in a video for Time, “Robert Capa’s Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf,” Time has added photo illustration...
View ArticleRay Rice video sparks ethics questions
After a series of famous journalism scandals in the early 1980s, I was asked to kick-start an ethics program at the Poynter Institute. I felt fully prepared to be a writing teacher, but not an ethics...
View ArticleBill Simmons’ ESPN suspension and the challenges of editing star talent
Whether you think Bill Simmons is the latest sacrificial lamb at ESPN, or that his suspension is really theater in the vein of professional wrestling, there are important issues behind the suspension...
View ArticleThe right way to publish a killer’s deranged manifesto
There’s a democratic value to publishing and referencing Elliot Rodger’s manifesto. The 22-year-old mass murderer left us a 141-page window into his deranged thinking. But don’t just publish it, add...
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Julia Dahl explores the tabloid world in her first novel
Julia Dahl’s first novel, “Invisible City,” is about a tabloid reporter in New York City covering the murder of a Hasidic woman. The novel, which came out in May, is fiction, but Dahl, a reporter for...
View ArticleIf you must unpublish, here’s how to maintain credibility
Gawker Gawker notes that BuzzFeed has unpublished more than 4,000 articles recently, disappearing posts on the 8-year-old company’s website. Editors at news websites usually take articles down with...
View ArticleSPJ Approves New Code of Ethics
The Society of Professional Journalists approved a new Code of Ethics at the Excellence in Journalism 2014 convention in Nashville Saturday afternoon. SPJ’s code of ethics attempts to speak to all...
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