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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:06 AM

12 Top Election Stories and Web Sites

It's been quite a year for politics and campaign coverage. As we head to the finish line, I'd like to nominate the journalists, publications and Web sites that I think have done the best job of covering the elections. 1. For depth of political coverage,
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Friday, October 24, 2008 5:30 AM

Death of an Informant

The Tallahassee Democrat is taking advantage of some of the newest forms of media to report and spread the story of Rachel Hoffman, a 23-year-old police informant who was murdered during a botched drug sting. For the newspaper's ongoing investigation
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Friday, October 17, 2008 5:07 AM

An Offer the Bankers Could Not Refuse

"Drama Behind a $250 Billion Banking Deal" by Mark Landler and Eric Dash in The New York Times provides stunning details on how, in a single meeting, Treasury Secretary Paulson restructured the American banking system. The chief executives of the nine
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Friday, September 26, 2008 6:38 AM

Twittering Ike

While the financial storm on Wall Street dominates the headlines, residents along the Gulf Coast in Texas are still struggling through the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The reporters there who continue to produce great stories while working and living
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:19 AM

Lehman's Last Days

"Ultimatum by Paulson Sparked Frantic End," by The Wall Street Journal's Deborah Solomon, Dennis K. Berman, Susanne Craig and Carrick Mollenkamp, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the collapse of Lehman Brothers. One of the most tumultuous weekends
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Monday, September 15, 2008 5:19 AM

The Rescuers

We're seeing some excellent news stories about two disasters last weekend: the train collision in Los Angeles and Hurricane Ike in Texas. Robert J. Lopez, Garrett Therolf and Scott Gold of the Los Angeles Times use a narrative style in "Heroism and
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:56 AM

Gutting out Gustav

Bravo to the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and all the other journalists who braved Hurricane Gustav to continue reporting the news. Although the Times-Picayune couldn't turn out a paper edition because of Gustav, it kept publishing hurricane stories,
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Friday, August 15, 2008 6:42 AM

The Battle for Georgia

"Georgia Soldiers, Civilians Break Down on Road to Battle," by Megan K. Stack of the Los Angeles Times, is a gritty report that brings us face to face with Georgian troops as they are overwhelmed by Russian air assaults. Stack wastes few words as she
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Monday, July 28, 2008 5:00 AM

The Searchers

David Filkins of the Albany Times Union and Lane Degregory of the St. Petersburg Times have written excellent short narratives that place readers in the middle of searches for missing persons. Here's an excerpt from Filkins' "In Fog's Cloak, a Search
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:02 AM

Drenched But Not Defeated

Two weeks ago News Gems applauded the work of The Des Moines Register as it covered the tornados that pummeled the Midwest. Today I want to give a special shout out to their fellow Iowans at The Cedar Rapids Gazette who are still putting out
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Friday, June 13, 2008 6:47 AM

Keeping Pace

Yesterday we featured The Des Moines Register's superb multimedia package, "Parkersburg Tornado: The Aftermath." Today we highlight a narrative from the Register's storm coverage, Ken Fuson's "Solidified by Sandbags." Fuson begins as the Cedar River
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:18 AM

Tales of the Tornado

The Des Moines Register is doing an amazing job of using maps, stories, photos, videos and blogs to cover the storms that have hammered Iowa. Take for example its "Parkersburg Tornado: The Aftermath" package, which allows viewers to scan a map
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Friday, May 30, 2008 6:06 AM

Sights and Sounds

I love the way Andrew Lee Butters starts his "Welcome to Hizballahstan" in the May 26 issue of Time with a sharp mix of sight and sound accented with a strong quotation: Surrounded by a ring of mountains like a concert band shell, Beirut
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:20 AM

Two Tales Become One

"In Rubble, Couple Clung to Each Other, and to Life," by Edward Wong in The New York Times, is one of the finest stories to emerge from the Chinese earthquake. In his lede, Wong quickly draws us into the predicament a husband and wife face as they lie
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:31 PM

Storm Damage

It's a reporter's nightmare: trying to cover a devastating natural disaster in a country controlled by a paranoid military junta. The news out of Burma this week has been spotty after a cyclone killed tens of thousands of people or perhaps more than 100,000 --
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