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From our Spring 2019 issue, visual editor @itsMaddie_C explores the ‘hidden history of the North’ as media accounta… https://t.co/L4YwS2BNuf

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Michener Awards Foundation has announced a new $40,000 fellowship for journalism education and two fellowships for… https://t.co/5pOxMLDeUJ

14 days ago

Looking for design inspiration in the new year? Our social media editor @sabina_s12 reflected on the last decade of… https://t.co/cxHpWQ5HRL

18 days ago

As 2020 approaches, co-chief copy editor @danieljawshua dives into the top 10 public interest stories from the past… https://t.co/LE5WhyTnTm

25 days ago

The RRJ recommends you read Chuck Klosterman’s meditation on “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper, “A New Don,” written for the now... Read more →

The RRJ recommends that you watch Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr released in 2015, and directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard.... Read more →

The RRJ recommends you read “A Death In Emergency Room One” and “A Part of Cop’s Past Lies Dead” by the... Read more →

The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.... Read more →

The best health stories are about empathy, about seeing clearly that all that separates you, the reader, from the story’s... Read more →