Photo Credit The New York Times; photograph by Petrina Watkins Times Insider What Unifies the National Desk What do more than 45 journalists spread out across the country have in common? This mission statement. By Marc Lacey and Shreeya Sinha
Photo Credit Elaine Thompson/Associated Press Times Insider How My 2-Year-Old Planted a Coronavirus Story Idea After another child at my son’s day care tested positive, I ran into obstacle after obstacle trying to get him a test. I quickly learned I wasn’t alone among concerned parents of young children. By Sarah Kliff
Photo Credit Joe Ward Times Insider The Friendship of Elena and Tom It’s rare that someone meets her favorite ballplayer. It’s even rarer that he becomes a fan of hers. By Vincent M. Mallozzi
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Photo Credit Max Whittaker for The New York Times A Photographer Works to the Sound of Falling Trees Fire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park. I went to see what it left behind. By Max Whittaker
Photo Credit Mark Abramson for The New York Times Off the Shore, Finding Sharks and Freedom Reporting on a unique group of fishermen was an adventure. Getting on the water myself was otherworldly. By Jordan Salama
Photo Credit National Archives The World War II You Don’t Know To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the conflict’s end, a special section that grew out of a yearlong project brings to light overlooked stories of bravery and adversity. By John Grippe
Photo Credit National Agriculture Imagery Program, via Descartes Labs Creating New Boundaries Where Journalism and Geography Meet A project from the Graphics desk wanted to find out if the color in your neighborhood, as seen from above, might indicate how you voted. By Will Dudding
Photo Credit Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times Following My Instincts Back to South Dakota Reporting experience at a previous job told me that I should check out the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this year. By Mark Walker
Photo Credit Eric Risberg/Associated Press Can Wildfire Smoke Worsen Covid-19 Symptoms? People with respiratory illnesses may be more vulnerable right now. Also: Are N95 masks recommended for wildfires? By Marie Tae McDermott
Photo Credit Daniel Slim/Agence France-Presse ? Getty Images Should I Quarantine After Traveling Outside California? Friday: What you can do to protect yourself if you are traveling. Also: The Supreme Court sided with officials at a California jail. By Marie Tae McDermott
Photo Credit Mario Anzuoni/Reuters How Massage Therapists in California Are Adapting to the Pandemic Some counties in California have not allowed personal care businesses to reopen. Other counties have moved them exclusively outdoors. By Marie Tae McDermott
Photo Credit Jim McAuley for The New York Times What More Can California Do to Stop the Coronavirus? Thursday: A conversation about navigating risk today. Also: Teachers push for limits, and Los Angeles basketball is almost back. By Jill Cowan
Photo Credit Jae C. Hong/Associated Press When Is It Safe for Schools to Reopen in California? Friday: A professor of epidemiology at U.C. Davis talks about what is necessary to safely reopen schools. Also: Tesla’s surprise profit sets it up for another major milestone. By Marie Tae McDermott
Photo Credit Christopher Lee for The New York Times Why The Times Editorial Board Supports an Impeachment Inquiry And what is an editorial board anyway? By James Bennet
Photo Credit Tom Brenner for The New York Times Why The Times Published Details of the Whistle-Blower’s Identity Our executive editor, Dean Baquet, addresses readers’ concerns about the decision to publish information on a person who is central to the Trump impeachment inquiry. By The New York Times
Photo Credit Photograph by Doug Mills/The New York Times; illustration by The New York Times Answers to Reader Questions on Our Brett Kavanaugh Essay The Times’s deputy editorial page editor, James Dao, answers questions about how we handled an essay on the Supreme Court justice and a third accusation of sexual misconduct. By The New York Times
Photo Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times A Times Headline About Trump Stoked Anger. A Top Editor Explains. A deputy managing editor addresses a front-page headline about President Trump that readers criticized for lacking important context. By The New York Times
Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Can a Middle-Class Family Earn $200,000? Yes, Our Editor Explains The business and economics editor for Opinion gives insight into how families were chosen for a feature about America’s middle class. By The New York Times
Photo Credit Jake Terrell How Times Reporters Handle Scientific Studies When is research considered reliable? The answer isn’t always fully known. Here’s the approach our journalists take in evaluating studies and their results. By Emily Palmer
Photo Credit Erin Schaff ‘You Have to Be Willing to Get a Bit Uncomfortable’: How a Reporter Covers a Protest A lot of thought goes into how best to capture the scene and the individual stories behind it, but in the end, anything can happen. By Derek M. Norman
Photo Credit Dwight Burdette, via Wikimedia Commons; illustration by The New York Times How and Why Our Editorial Board Endorses Political Candidates Our deputy editorial page editor explains the endorsement process and introduces an experiment to make it more open. By Lara Takenaga
Photo Credit Tyler Comrie What Is an Editorial Board? At The New York Times, it’s an institutional voice, but not the voice of the institution as a whole. By James Bennet
Photo Credit Matt Dorfman How Poetry Shakes Up the National Desk’s Morning Meetings A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes. By Marc Lacey
Photo Credit Brittainy Newman/The New York Times Who Is Marc Lacey? Meet the Times Editor Moderating the Democratic Debate Marc Lacey, the National editor, will be onstage with the CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett at the first debate The Times has hosted in more than a decade. By Lara Takenaga
Photo Credit Luis Mazon A ‘Daily’ Producer on How a ‘Crazy Idea’ Became a News Show for Millions Theo Balcomb talks about the challenges of running such a popular podcast, the gray area it embraces and her early days in audio reporting. By Lara Takenaga
Photo Credit Luis Mazon A Tech Columnist on How He Avoids Twitter Trolls and Finds Screen-Free Escapes Kevin Roose gets into the future of technology, the anxiety of publishing a huge story and his newest hobby (no screens involved). By Lara Takenaga
Photo Credit Rebecca Clarke From Refugee to Pentagon Correspondent, Helene Cooper on Covering ‘the Best Beat in Washington’ Reporting on the military comes with some perks, like flying in bomber planes and playing with high-tech equipment. By Lara Takenaga
Photo Credit Rebecca Clarke Jose Del Real on the Emotional Weight and ‘Thematic Whiplash’ of Covering California Jose Del Real has covered some of California’s most significant stories. One way he deals with the stress? Solo morning dance parties. By Lara Takenaga