Journalism Archives

Environment

The Doubt Makers

By funding its own research, industry has raised unwarranted doubts about a range of scientific issues — from the risks of tobacco to the reality of climate change — delaying response to public dangers for decades. Can scientists and journalists learn to beat the doubt industry before our most serious problems beat us all?

Michelle Nijhuis

Environment

See It — and Believe It or Not

The aphorism seeing is believing' has it backward, as evidenced by skeptics who don't believe man went to the moon and contend photos taken by the astronauts prove their point.

Tom Jacobs

Social Justice

More Information and Less Knowledge Than Ever

A journalism professor presents an elegy for the information age, bemoaning the current-affairs illiteracy on display with each new semester's offerings of undergrads.

Michael Todd

Economics

Why Miller-McCune and Why Now?

Noted journalist James Fallows helps us explain our new magazine and Web site.

John Mecklin

Social Justice

The Bottom Line for Nonprofit News

Across America, nonprofit Web sites are trying to keep public interest journalism alive at the local level. But to provide what print newspapers increasingly do not, these digitized nonprofits must overcome the challenge facing every startup: Eventually, they have to break even.

Ryan Blitstein