Feb 27, 2015
An article from the New Republic last week discusses what the author calls “feelings journalism,” which is simply a new way of describing an old kind of writing: assuming we know what another person is thinking and feeling without actually asking. I often see this in...
Feb 12, 2015
By Robin Ewing Nonny de la Peña screened her immersive journalism project, called Project Syria, at Sundance Film Festival last month. Users wear a virtual-reality headset to experience a street bomb in 3D, the visuals meticulously recreated from a video of a real...
Feb 1, 2015
By Robin Ewing The mainland Chinese assistant to a German journalist was arrested in Beijing in October after taking photos at Occupy Central in Hong Kong and posting them to her WeChat account. She is still being held, almost four months later, for “inciting a...
Jan 30, 2015
By Robin Ewing In the last three months, Apple made US$18 billion and news agency Associated Press produced 3,000 stories written by a computer program. One of these was the report about Apple’s billions, published minutes after the quarterly earnings were...
Jan 28, 2015
Medium, a blog-publishing platform, has been called (by others and by Medium itself) the “best writing tool on the web.” Anyone can publish and it looks good; “elegant” is the word most often used. If you want to read something that clearly...
Jan 26, 2015
This is the tragic story of jazz singer Billie Holiday and how she was killed, in part, by the man who created the U.S.’s War on Drugs. Though Holiday died in 1959, this article — adapted from a book and published here in Politico Magazine —...
