CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz has covered mass shootings from Pulse nightclub to Uvalde elementary school. These are the hard lessons he’s learned.

Indianz.Com co-founder Acee Agoyo thinks celebrating Native American heritage at the White House is a good thing—but Indigenous journalists are still outside the mainstream.

You can either benefit from technology or you can protect your privacy. You can’t do both, says an expert from the Center for Democracy & Technology.

Veteran journalist Sonya Ross made history at the AP and pioneered coverage of race. As managing editor for Inside Climate News, history’s repeating itself.

Women of color who are political candidates are far more likely to be targeted with violent abuse, according to a new study from the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Ageism doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Experts from the Trust for America’s Health and the Urban Institute discuss how the intersectionality of race, sex, ability and wealth also matter.

Former Reveal Executive Editor Sumi Aggarwal on staffing newsrooms of the future, where journalists of color occupy more high-profile reporting slots.

Jean Heller, who broke the Tuskegee syphilis story, and Associated Press VP Ron Nixon discuss the past and future of investigative reporting.

Journalists on the frontlines of traumatic events must strive to mitigate stress, said reporters and an editor from USA Today and NBC News.

How to cover extremism without adding fuel to the fire, from experts in terrorism and white supremacy Bill Braniff and Kesa White.

“Latinos are not a monolith, and they do not vote as such.”

NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuel: "Find 'your people' in the newsroom – the ones who get what you’re doing "

Veteran journalist Kenneth Cooper’s stellar career proves that authenticity results in impact — from building a beat to leading a newsroom.

Former CQ Roll Call Editor Catalina Camia shares lessons from her journey to the top rungs of the newsroom ladder

Politico newsletter author Brakkton Booker says making a career pivot is easy when you value each step along the way.

Deborah D. Douglas, co-editor of the re-launched The Emancipator, says being a Black woman in journalism has required her to recalibrate -- often.

There are two kinds of objectivity standards: objective reporting methods and the appearance of objectivity. Both are problematic, said Kathleen McElroy of the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication.

"So again, fault line awareness is about taking into account nuances in stories. It's about understanding self-awareness. And to realize the societal fault lines and biases are natural because we experience things differently," Henderson said.

"Modesty is an admirable trait but not always useful in a news organization," says Suarez.

What started as a brief consulting stint turned into now six years directing content for National Geographic, during one of the most contentious periods in American history.

Coverage of refugees fleeing Ukraine differs from reporting on families from Afghanistan and Syria.

While TikTok videos about epigenetics and trauma rack up millions of likes, the science continues to evolve.

Census officials share new techniques and strategies that yield more accurate measures of race and ethnicity.

North Carolina activists decry local and global harms of cutting trees to make wood pellets for export.

Historical discrimination, malpractice and lingering mistrust block the path to significant diversity in rare disease research

At the University of Chicago Crime Lab, researchers explore ways to keep at-risk kids out of crime – and partner with schools to put theory into practice.

While homicides spiked in the U.S. during the 2020 pandemic, they didn’t increase in other countries. Are guns, “de-policing” or is cynicism about policing to blame?

As the nation wrestles with ways to change its criminal justice system, reporters need to keep one eye on the streets and the other on the legislature. Tips for finding sources and data on the beat.

Some states are trying to curb the use of misdemeanor fines that hurt the poorest and fuel racial inequality. Is your state among them?

A researcher who has spent much of her career exploring the connection – or lack thereof – between immigration and crime calls for coverage that reflects the facts.

A leading criminologist examines six theories that could explain the abrupt change in U.S. crime during the pandemic – and knocks down several myths

Gangs in the U.S. have transformed from “play groups to problem groups.” But much of what we “know” about them is wrong – from their true numbers to how long members stick around. A sociologist explains.

A top advocate of police reform says U.S. needs a major rethinking of policing strategies to reduce violence and end racial disparities.

When New York City instituted changes to bail laws, the public pushed back strongly. What does it mean for similar efforts across the country?

Lack of clear title to African American lands affects logging, affordable housing and ability of families to accumulate wealth.

Community development financial institution experts say CDFIs can help alleviate rural poverty and racial inequities where previous pandemic relief failed. How journalists can track COVID-19 federal funding in their communities.

Do Blacks and Hispanics in the U.S. face higher property taxes even with fixed rates? Finance Professor Carlos Avenancio-León argues yes and urges reporters to investigate.

Law professor Dorothy Brown, author of “The Whiteness of Wealth,” details how racial inequities permeate the tax code and how journalists can work around data gaps.

Just when the U.S. began winning the war on prescription opioid misuse, synthetic fentanyl smuggled from China and Mexico has created an “unprecedented” increase in overdose deaths.

Addiction specialist Dr. Stephen Taylor has been calling for sweeping reforms in the racialized treatment of substance use disorders. He calls on physicians and law enforcement to rethink a chronic, relapsing brain disorder.