Journalists

In a multinational prisoner exchange, the Wall Street Journal reporter was freed, after being detained for more than a year in Russian jail.

Jeff Nichols’s adaptation of the photographer Danny Lyon’s 1968 book about a Chicago motorcycle club is a tough, turbulent, but airbrushed drama.

A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?

In “Morning After the Revolution,” the former New York Times reporter sets out to uncover a not-so-forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy.

The podcast, co-hosted by J. J. Redick and LeBron James, combines analytical commentary with an insider’s perspective—and bypasses traditional media.

The president of the Committee to Protect Journalists explains why Israel’s military campaign has led to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months.

A new documentary on an outlet’s struggle to cover its own tribal government charts the implicit challenge that the American media writ large has faced in the past eight years.

A day at Prospect Park Lake with Esther Wang, a local journalist who takes readers into the polluted rivers and murky ponds of New York City, which are home to a surprising number of fish.

A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. I asked one such company to try to replace me.

A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an era of war.

It’s painful and surreal to write these words: Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is being held by Russian authorities on espionage charges.

During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalism’s promise as well as of its failures. She sees herself as a demystifier.

The indefatigable sportswriter from Kansas knew that the power of the global game extended far beyond the field of play.

When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety. 

France’s renowned author, known for his penetrating portraits of murderers and disaster victims, trains his eye on his own emotional collapse.

The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira, and the crisis created by Jair Bolsonaro’s policies.

The paper’s employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story.

“No nation is doomed for failure or destined to live in captivity,” the journalist and historian Adam Michnik says.

After a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry, dozens of outlets moved their reporters out of the country.

As the war escalates, real reporting from within Putin’s circle has become nearly impossible.