The pandemic has dealt a blow to transparency.

What does it take for a freelance journalist to navigate conflict zone reporting?

Bearing witness to a murder — and a message — on a dirt path in South Sudan.

China’s new English-language world media service has an annual budget nearly 20 times that of the BBC. But can China’s billions buy media credibility?

Once the middle class started investing in stocks, business news narrowed its focus to investor concerns, going back to its early 20th century roots as a servant of the markets.

When the US unleashes drone strikes on Pakistan, key questions go unasked by the U.S. media — and unanswered by government officials.

An unsettling trend of limiting press at major events shows that the Obama White House has regressed on transparency, limiting news access more severely than Bush.

It’s either death threats and assassinations or state subsidies with lots of strings attached; all in all, a tough time for investigative reporting in Russia. But some are gutting it out.

Despite progress on transparency since President Obama took office, there have been plenty of missed opportunities in areas such as state secrets, FOIA requests, White House visitor records, and more.

To buy or not to buy seems to be the only question MSNBC’s reporters and commentators are capable of asking.

“The government, the financial industry and the American consumer — if they had only paid attention — would have gotten ample warning about this crisis from us, years in advance, when there was still time to evacuate and seek shelter from this storm.” Diana Henriques,New York Times business reporter, speech at The George Washington University, November […]

Rupert Murdoch is giving The Wall Street Journal more global reach, but he’s sacrificed in-depth investigations for breaking news.