How to Cover the Story
Need reporting advice? Journalists suggest questions to ask, list resources, detail how they did the story and offer other tips.
How to Cover the Story
EWA headed to the University of Chicago last month with about 50 reporters from across the country for some frank talk about teacher evaluations....
Public records are a powerful basis for stories, but tracking down the ones you need can be tricky....
Teachers’ unions can be powerful forces – in addition to contract negotiations, the unions can have an impact on school board decisions on everything from z...
This guide lays out the basic standards education journalists should strive to follow regardless of their particular specialties or areas of expertise. ...
Freelance journalist Peg Tyre talks about how she reported her award-winning story “The Writing Revolution,” published in October 2012 by The Atlantic...
David Jackson and Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune talk about the 10-year reporting project that became EWA’s Grand Prize-winning project, “An Empty-Desk Ep...
Interviewing children is a critical element of the education reporter’s daily work....
For her story Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong, Mother Jones contributing writer Kristina Rizga went deep inside San Francisco’s Missi...
EWA invited two veteran journalists to share their thoughts on whether reporters should offer to share drafts of stories with their sources before publication....
