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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:23 AM

Wildfires

Julie Cart and Bettina Boxall of the Los Angeles Times have written an exceptional series on the soaring costs of Western wildfires, "Big Burn." They examine the causes, including drought, shrinking snowpacks, the spread of nonnative grasses and the Forest
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Friday, August 01, 2008 6:32 AM

Goodbye Mr. Newton

"The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More -- More is Different" in the July 16 edition of Wired takes a fascinating look at how our ability to process enormous amounts of data has forever changed science as well as business, medicine and technology.
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:29 AM

The Nurse Shortage

Roy Wenzl of The Wichita Eagle has written a nice two-part report on how the nationwide shortage of nurses is affecting a local health-care provider, the Via Christi Wichita Health Network. The first part, "Health Care's Looming Crisis: A Need for Nurses,"
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:06 AM

Invasive Species

Two newspapers have produced noteworthy reports on non-native plants and animals that harm local environments. The Statesman Journal's ten-month series, "Invasive Species of Oregon," written by Beth Casper and Henry Miller, covers a wide range of species.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:00 AM

Views From the Street

The Los Angeles Times recently published two stories that provide local perspectives on international problems. "Gas Prices Box in an Alabama Community," by Richard Fausset, describes how soaring gas prices have affected the people of Coy, Ala., where
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:00 AM

The Hunger

The war in Iraq, the presidential campaign and the slumping economy have been the big stories so far this year, but they may soon be eclipsed by one with a more devastating impact: a worldwide hunger crisis. Marc Lacey of The New York Times
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Attacking the Teachers

Gabriel Sherman has a fascinating story in New York magazine about what happens at an elite prep school when its students begIn writing vicious attacks on a teacher using their Facebook pages. Sherman's "Testing Horace Mann" explores how social
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:15 AM

A Looming Lack of Doctors?

In a two-part series, "Physician Shortage on the Horizon" and "Primary-Care Providers Lose Money Treating Medicare Patients," Mike Dennison of the Helena Independent Record examines our system of reimbursing doctors for their work, and how it contributes
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Small Town Lives

Boyd Huppert of KARE 11 News in Minneapolis has crafted a wonderful series about opportunities and tribulations in rural America. His "Four Corners" project takes us to the Grand Portage Reservation and the towns of Northcote, Luverne and Caledonia in
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:45 AM

Deadly Medicine

There have been two impressive stories recently about how prescription drug overdoses are becoming leading killers. In "Deadly Combinations," Chris Tisch and Abbie Vansickle of the St. Petersburg Times report that prescription drug overdoses killed
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Friday, February 01, 2008 8:30 AM

The Advertising Game

Amy Schoenfeld and Vu Nguyen of The New York Times have developed a fun graphic that looks at how Super Bowl advertising has evolved over the past 20 years. "The Super Ad Bowl: Two Decades of Players" allows viewers to scroll through a
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Friday, January 18, 2008 9:30 AM

The Guatemalan Connection

The Web site of the Bay Area News Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times, reaches a wider audience for its fascinating series on Guatemalan immigrants by running versions of the stories in English and in Spanish. Staff
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Monday, January 14, 2008 9:00 AM

Children on Drugs

Last week PBS' Frontline ran a powerful story by producer, writer and director Marcela Gaviria about the steep increase in psychiatric medicines that children are receiving. "The Medicated Child" explores the possible impact on kids of
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:30 AM

Best Gems of 2007

When we sat down to create the Top 10 News Gems of 2007, we ended up with an initial list of more than 40 favorite stories. We had a hard time deciding among the many outstanding examples of journalism from magazines, broadcast outlets, Web sites and
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