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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:32 AM

Mid-East Media War

Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post has written a revealing two-part series on the Mid-East media campaigns of the U.S. government and al-Qaeda. It's fascinating to compare the campaigns' structures and their results. The centerpiece of Washington's
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:04 AM

Scenes From a Recovery

Bill Reiter, sports reporter at The Kansas City Star, visited storm-ravaged Iowa to report on the recovery efforts. The result, "Iowans Are Reclaiming Their Lives and Their Sports," uses scenes from Des Moines, Parkersburg, West Des Moines, Ames, Waterloo
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:07 AM

Just Wait....

Associated Press Texas sports editor Jaime Aron has written an excellent narrative about his premature twin sons' fight for life, "Born Too Soon." There's much to recommend this story – it has just enough details, it moves at a nice pace, Aron shares
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:31 AM

They Watch Every Blip

"The Flight Watchmen" by Laura Blumenfeld of The Washington Post is a fine example of how to tell a larger story be tracking a few people through an ordinary day. The day starts slowly as Chan Browne, 44, makes a sandwich for his girlfriend's daughter's
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:02 AM

Drenched But Not Defeated

Two weeks ago News Gems applauded the work of The Des Moines Register as it covered the tornados that pummeled the Midwest. Today I want to give a special shout out to their fellow Iowans at The Cedar Rapids Gazette who are still putting out
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Monday, June 23, 2008 6:57 AM

Detainees

Two stories in the past week have taken us deep inside the war against terrorism to show us the people, places and techniques that the U.S. government has tried to keep hidden. In Sunday's New York Times, "Inside a 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation" by
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Friday, June 20, 2008 6:33 AM

A Sharp Eye on Mass Transit

Miami-Dade County commissioners are considering tax hikes to fund their crumbling mass transit system. County taxpayers have been there before. In 2002, after rejecting four previous proposals for transit tax hikes, they approved a sales tax. Now, in
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:51 AM

The Housing Bubble

"Anatomy of a Meltdown: The Credit Crisis" by Alec Klein and Zachary A. Goldfarb of The Washington Post is a comprehensive, readable account of the housing boom and bust. In the first section of this three-part series, they trace the bubble's roots
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Monday, June 16, 2008 6:45 AM

Undercover in Myanmar

More than a month after Cyclone Nargis killed tens of thousands of people in Myanmar, the military regime continues to deny unhindered access to the disaster zone. To reach the affected regions, a Los Angeles Times staff writer hid in the holds of riverboats
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Friday, June 13, 2008 6:47 AM

Keeping Pace

Yesterday we featured The Des Moines Register's superb multimedia package, "Parkersburg Tornado: The Aftermath." Today we highlight a narrative from the Register's storm coverage, Ken Fuson's "Solidified by Sandbags." Fuson begins as the Cedar River
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:27 AM

Juvenile Justice

The Long Beach Press-Telegram has produced an excellent series, "Kids and Crime: Inside Juvenile Justice." The sections, written by Wendy Thomas Russell, Greg Mellen, Tracy Manzer and Kevin Butler, cover local neighborhoods, schools, police, courts and
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:13 AM

John Doe Steps Forward

In 1970, 13-year-old John Hunt was victimized by a serial pedophile, Dr. George Reardon, in Reardon's office at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Hunt, now an assistant features editor at The Hartford Courant, tells what happened next in
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Monday, June 09, 2008 6:53 AM

Lure and Connect

An intriguing title and blurb can pull readers into a story they'd otherwise skip. Here's how Rebecca Dube of The Globe and Mail begins "Senior High," her series on a Toronto retirement home named the Terraces of Baycrest: Fast Times at Senior High
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:16 AM

Bringing the Troops Home

Bryan Bender and Kevin Baron of the Boston Globe have done some outstanding reporting on military affairs. In December we highlighted "Army Knew of Cheating on Tests for Eight Years." Now they have produced an excellent Memorial Weekend series, "Finding
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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