June 2012
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Panel at East-West Center's International Media... →
I spoke at a panel in Seoul about my favorite topic: online journalism. I was joined by Ana Marie Pamintuan, editor in chief of The Philippine Star; Kang Bing, deputy editor of China Daily; and Felix Soh, an editor for several Malay and English newspapers owned by Singapore Press Holdings.
May 2012
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June 2011
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A new role
I’m beginning a new assignment for DealBook, working with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jeffrey Cane and a talented group of reporters to cover the world of mergers and acquisitions.
May 2011
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The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash →
Stars and dimmer lights deal in a world of dirt and money, not always unwillingly. (Photo: David Mcnew/Getty Images)
April 2011
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WatchChildren in Bheer, a slum outside Lahore, raise pigeons. Pigeon-racing is a popular sport here. The winner of an annual race in Lahore receives a prize worth the equivalent of $30,000 from Bahrain.
Last year, one notorious bird was seized in neighboring India and accused of being a spy.
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WatchNear a small village outside Lahore, manure will be used a source of fuel. After being piled into patties, the manure is stuck onto the walls of the family home. Once it dries, the manure falls off and is ready to be burned.
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March 2011
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Philadelphia School Battles Students’ Bad Eating... →
An effort to improve nutrition is up against an array of powerful forces, from economics to biology, all of which are playing out in Philadelphia, where the obesity rate is among the nation’s highest. (Photo: Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times)
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Guest Lecture at UConn →
Last week I returned to Storrs, Conn., to address journalism students in Professor Marcel Dufresne’s professional seminar class, a course that provides students with the opportunity to hear from professionals across the journalism spectrum.
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Why Yasir Qadhi Wants to Talk About Jihad →
To prevent violent extremism in the U.S., the Muslim cleric says he must talk openly to his young followers. But can the J-word even be part of the conversation? Includes video and an interactive feature. (Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
February 2011
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X-Rays and Unshielded Infants →
“I was mortified. Full, unabashed, total irradiation of a neonate. This poor, defenseless baby.” Dr. Salvatore J. A. Sclafani, left, Chief of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Radiation errors at the hospital in Brooklyn raise questions about the competence, training and oversight of technologists who operate powerful equipment. (Photo: Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times)
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Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet →
A blackout during protests has mesmerized technical experts and raised concerns about other governments. (Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
December 2010
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The Radiation Boom: Missing the Target →
A fast-growing form of radiation therapy injures patients when its pinpoint beam is allowed to spread too far.
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Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours →
On paper, experts and investigators agree, the Deepwater Horizon should have weathered the blowout that created one of the worst environmental catastrophes in United States history. Using a trove of multimedia, documents and interviews, this story explains how and why it didn’t. (Photo provided to The New York Times)
November 2010
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State's Secrets →
For the next several days, I’ll be working with a team of reporters and editors on a series of articles that will examine American diplomatic cables as a window on relations with the rest of the world in an age of war and terrorism.
A mammoth cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the last three years, provides an unprecedented look at...
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The Radiation Boom: Clarity at a Cost →
Children are vulnerable to radiation, but dentists and orthodontists use technology that emits high levels of it.
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While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales →
When sales of Domino’s Pizza were lagging, a government agency stepped in with advice: more cheese. This is the same government that, for health reasons, is advising less cheese. (Photo: Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times)
August 2010
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The Radiation Boom: A Test Turns Dangerous →
Among patients tested for strokes with a complex type of brain scan, radiation overdoses were more widespread than previously known, a New York Times examination has found.
Includes the voices of patients who received radiation overdoses from a procedure called a CT brain perfusion scan.
July 2010
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Prone to Error: Earliest Steps to Find Cancer →
Due to outright error and case-by-case disagreement, biopsy diagnosis often leads to unnecessary surgery.
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Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank →
As the United States seeks to end a four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times)
June 2010
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Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig... →
From documents and interviews, it is possible to piece together some of the decisions and events that came into play when the Deepwater Horizon most needed its last line of defense, the blind shear ram.
May 2010
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The Hard Sell on Salt →
The salt industry is working to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar efforts for 30 years. (Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
January 2010
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The Jihadist Next Door →
In his small-town Alabama high school, Omar Hammami was among the coolest, most gifted students in his class. How did he grow up to become a leader in an African terror group linked to Al Qaeda? Features an interactive timeline that includes home videos, family photos, journal entries and more. (Photo: Left, from the Hammami family)
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The Radiation Boom: Protecting Patients →
While new treatments are more accurate, errors in software and operation are more difficult to detect.
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The Radiation Boom: When Treatment Goes Awry →
This is the first in a series of articles that will examine issues arising from the increasing use of medical radiation and the new technologies that deliver it.
Photo at right, for his last Christmas, Scott Jerome-Parks rested his feet in buckets of sand his friends had sent from a childhood beach. A New York City hospital treating him for tongue cancer had failed to detect a computer error...
December 2009
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21st-Century Babies: Made to Order →
Surrogacy is largely without regulation, creating an emerging commercial market for babies that raises vexing ethical questions. (Photo: Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times)
October 2009
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Held by the Taliban →
This is the first installment in a five-part multimedia series I worked on that offers a first-person account by David Rohde of his seven months as a captive of the Taliban in Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, a New York Times reporter, was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: Tomas Munita for...
August 2009
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WatchThe number of suicides reported by the Army has risen to the highest level since record-keeping began three decades ago.
June 2009
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Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears →
AltaRock Energy will drill near San Francisco using a method that has caused earthquakes elsewhere.
Update: Sept. 2, 2009 — The $17 million energy project that was supposed to demonstrate the feasibility of extracting vast amounts of heat from the earth’s bedrock has been suspended indefinitely after the drilling essentially snagged on surface rock formations.
