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Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type [...]

When journalists talk about how they wish the public could recognize good reporting from bad reporting or even fakery, the subject often turns to whether [...]

We hope this essay will provoke some new ideas about how to help people become more discriminating consumers of news. Our recommendations boil down to [...]

Valeria Fernández has illuminated immigrant life in the Southwest through stories published in outlets such as CNN International, The Guardian, and PRI’s The World. For [...]

We know the numbers about newsroom diversity aren’t shifting in the direction we want them to. We’ve seen reports and studies that profess change, but [...]

Medicine came to the realization some years ago: Being a good doctor requires more than knowing science. The best doctors also understand their patients. As [...]

Here are some tips for reporters, photojournalists and videographers on how to incorporate empathy in your work: Spend time researching an unfamiliar community before you [...]

Empathetic journalism can build bridges to communities, but without lasting changes in coverage, an act of empathy can become another instance of parachute journalism. This [...]

Empathy should be a newsroom-wide value, but it starts with reporters because they deal with people in the community every day. No matter a reporter’s [...]

What a difference a year of political upheaval makes. The Midwest Political Science Association since 1939 has focused on study and research of political science. [...]