The craft of reporting examined closely: developing a beat, source protection, document verification, records requests, corrections practice, and the ethical decisions taken close to deadline. Examples come from published work with the reasoning made explicit. For working reporters, editors and journalism instructors.
Work on the practice itself: building a beat, cultivating sources, verifying documents, handling corrections, and the ethics of a deadline call.
Full anonymity is a specialist skill; the baseline is not — device updates, a password manager, two-factor hardware, encrypted source channels, and a threat model written on one page.
Rosa Marchetti
Truth sandwich structure, pre-bunking, and coverage of the counting process itself let newsrooms cover election falsehoods without repeating them into every headline.
Rosa Marchetti
Trauma-aware interviewing is a set of learnable moves — preparation, control handed to the interviewee, no ambush questions — taught by the Dart Center and practiced on every beat.
Rosa Marchetti
A reader-facing AI disclosure names the task, the accountable editor, and the limits — without pretending the machine is a colleague or hiding it in a footer.
Rosa Marchetti
Decades of research link certain reporting details to contagion and others to prevention; the guidelines that followed are specific, learnable, and made for exactly these assignments.
Nathan Brooks