Why Is Reporting on Trans Issues So Fraught?

As trans issues move into the mainstream, the need for clear best practices to…

Who Gets Paid for Interviews?

The public has no clue who is remunerated to talk about the news, but they should. And so should other…

Behind the Freelance Curtain

To be a freelance journalist in 2019 requires compromise and creativity. Is there a transparency obligation to disclose other kinds of work?

My Chronic Lyme, Your Ill-Informed Summertime Clickbait

The Right to Be Forgotten

Posting arrest reports is a mostly useless and often destructive transparency practice. Why can’t journalism’s…

It’s Hard to Focus On a Novel When You Can’t Pay the Rent

Journalism’s Perilous Generation Gap

Legacy institutions are products of a vanishing world. But that’s no excuse for the persistence…

“Based On a True Story”: A History

A 1974 B-movie changed the way Hollywood, television and publishing think about—and sell—the truth.

It’s Time to Retire the Man on the Street

Building trust in news means forming thoughtful connections, not shaking opinions out…

How Indonesia Beat the Misinformation Scourge (For Now)