Some writers plot their stories like blueprints. Every beat is mapped, every theme carefully threaded, every sentence calibrated toward meaning. Stephen Graham Jones is not one of those writers. Or at ...

Even in a fast-changing industry, some concepts — like getting the name of the dog — endure. Poynter first published a list of tips for great journalism about 10 years ago. Those 40 “time-tested tips ...

When we read stories, watch films or TV shows, look at pictures or play video games, we use lots of different skills to work out what is happening. One of these skills is called inference. Inferring ...