How I Finally Learned My Name
An email from a stranger sent me on a quest back in time, to the years before the Holocaust, in search of my family and myself.
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Some journalists argue that sharing crime-scene photos from mass shootings could help spark a successful movement for new gun laws. I’m not so sure.
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If GateHouse Media actually acquires Gannett, countless local outlets might be closed or homogenized. But there’s an alternative.
Larry Downing / Reuters I’ve Seen the Limits of Journalism
Twenty years ago, I was convinced the shootings I covered at Columbine would change everything. That’s not what happened.
Rick Wilking / Reuters My Newspaper Died 10 Years Ago. I’m Worried the Worst Is Yet to Come.
I was the editor of the Rocky Mountain News when it folded in 2009. A decade later, I’m concerned that more local journalism will suffer the same fate.
Marc Piscotty / Getty For the Love of the Local Newspaper
Regional publications do work that really matters to their communities. And local journalists know it in their bones.
Joshua Roberts / Reuters Champagne in the Cellar
How I used the internet to find the man who saved my parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.
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