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Jack El-Hai, ASJA
 Journalism is the first rough draft of history, Alan Barth declared. Or is it the reverse, that history is just journalism, as Joseph Campbell mischievously asserted? Either way, there’s much in common between writing journalism and chronicling history, and I’ve spent my career exploring the overlap of those two great disciplines.
I'm always surprised to see how few of my fellow journalists try writing about history. It could be that some writers find history intimidating, they’re afraid of making factual errors, they think they wouldn’t enjoy historical research, or they have a cockeyed notion of what history is about.
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The New York Times
The cable news channel Al Jazeera America, which debuted in 2013 to great fanfare when it promised to cover American news soberly and seriously, will be shutting down by the end of April. The move was announced at a companywide meeting.
In a memo to the staff, Al Jazeera America’s chief executive, Al Anstey, said the “decision by Al Jazeera America’s board is driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.”
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Poynter
When he first started his career as a journalist, Kevin Vaughan carefully clipped each story, scribbled the date on top and tucked it into a file folder. That turned, eventually, to grabbing the day's paper and tossing it in a closet.
"It was like that for a long, long time."
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THE Writer
Dana Spiotta is the author of three novels: Stone Arabia (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Eat the Document (finalist for the National Book Award) and Lightning Field (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). Her fiction often focuses on the tensions of leading a double life, and her protagonists include a fugitive radical activist fleeing her criminal past by moving to suburbia, a failed rock musician writing a fictitious autobiography documenting the career he wished he’d had, and a married woman continuing affairs with two other men.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Sean Penn’s career as a journalist is not without its achievements. Over the years, Penn has scored interviews with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Raúl Castro of Cuba. He has pushed up against authoritarian governments, like the time in 2005 when he had his camera confiscated by Iranian officials while on assignment in Tehran for The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Vulture
The right book, it's said, can change your life. Some books can alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a perspective they may never have considered before. Others expand the sense of what's possible within the confines of a narrative; still others tell stories that the reader might not have ever expected to find themselves hearing. With a New Year just beginning, it's an ideal time to seek out books that have a track record of changing lives.
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The Atlantic
A ship lands on an alien shore and a young man, desperate to prove himself, is tasked with befriending the inhabitants and extracting their secrets. Enchanted by their way of life, he falls in love with a local girl and starts to distrust his masters. Discovering their man has gone native, they in turn resolve to destroy both him and the native population once and for all.
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