Gretchen A. Peck

1 week ago | editorandpublisher.com | Cassandra Jaramillo |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2025 12:00 am Winning this Pulitzer as part of an all-woman reporting and editing team is an honor in itself. But most of all, this recognition ensures that the lives of Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi are never forgotten. Without the sources and family members who trusted us with their most painful experiences, these stories would not have been possible.” The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism were announced on May 5. As...

2 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Kelly Ann Scott |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 12:00 am We want to be essential. Our impact and investigative work needs to be essential.” In October 2024, the Houston Chronicle reported that it had doubled the size of its investigations team under the direction of Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President Kelly Ann Scott. Scott came to the Houston Chronicle in 2023 from the Alabama Media Group (AL.com), where she was the editor-in-chief, vice president of content and the leader of a newsroom that earned a...

2 weeks ago | editorandpublisher.com | Nick Miroff |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2025 12:00 am This climate of fear is bad for journalism. It’s bad for democracy. It’s bad for the federal government. It’s just in bad faith.” The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press previously produced a tip sheet for journalists, clarifying immigration-related data, documents and other public records they can request from various federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act. In April 2025, the Committee also published a three-part “Immigration...

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Kathy Best |Philip Merrill College |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2025 12:00 am ... what separates journalism from advocacy is that journalism is fact-based. Journalism rests on a firm foundation of data. Those facts and that data may not take you where you want to go.” “Impact” is what all journalists hope for their work — that it will be consequential and inspire change. It may be as simple as a better-informed audience or as complex as a change in public policy. But at what point does a quest for impact cross the line from...

Mar 12, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Casey Newton |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00 am Right now, I spend a lot of time writing about AI companies. AI companies are small compared to Google or Meta — in terms of the number of users, revenue and employees. They’re small by the standards of the behemoths, but they’re also massively consequential.” Technology is a huge part of the contemporary American story and economy. According to statistical data analyst Statista, in 2023 alone, the U.S. tech sector contributed nearly $2 trillion to...