PW Star Watch 2019 Honorees 

By Liz Hartman, Sep 06, 2019 

While attending the University of Washington, where she earned a BA in English with an emphasis on creative writing, Goetz worked as an intern at Martin Literary for three years, where she received academic credi...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has virtually closed the door on Iraqis who worked as interpreters for the American military, issuing only two U.S. visas to former interpreters last year, according to government statistics obtained by NBC News.

The interpreters ha...

As a music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim DeRogatis received his first tip about R. Kelly via fax. It alluded to the R&B star’s problem with “young girls.” The critic broke the story of Mr. Kelly’s alleged sex with minors in December 2000.

The following month, Mr...

Before Bill Cosby was an inmate at a Pennsylvania state prison, he held a pristine reputation as one of Hollywood's most beloved entertainers.

So when Andrea Constand's sexual assault allegations against Cosby broke in 2005, Nicole Weisensee Egan, an investigative repor...

Hilde Lysiak, 13, is an American reporter and writer who publishes her own local newspaper, which she started at the age of seven. Hilde is the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists. She has been recognized for her work in The New York Times, NBC T...

Jack Andraka was in high school and only 15 when he won the grand prize at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for presenting a method for detecting early stages of pancreatic and other cancers. Jack was deeply moved by the death of someone who he...

When you’re looking at Elizabeth Fournier’s funeral home from the street, it looks like any ordinary farmhouse nestled into the hills of Boring, Oregon—and even after she welcomed me through the front door, it seemed hard to believe there were two wicker caskets tucked...

THE WOODLANDS, TX -- The 2019 7th Annual WISE Conference, has announced their charities of choice for the conference scheduled for September 25 at Lone Star College, 5000 Research Blvd. In The Woodlands, from 9:00am to 4:00pm. “Women Helping Women” is the motivation be...

Free speech, while protected under the First Amendment and indisputably a foundation of democracy, has come increasingly under fire in an era of bots, so-called fake news and a challenging business environment for the news industry. Journalists around the globe, includ...

Apart from that, what are your favorite moments in the documentary?

Foster: What sold the film was a moment, the opening moment of the film, where Jack Andraka wins the science fair in 2012. And it’s an amazing moment. It’s pure exhilaration. That was one of the first t...

In her new book, “Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad” (Seal Press), former Philadelphia Daily News reporter Nicole Weisensee Egan details the turbulent legal battle that led to the conviction of Philadelphia native and Hollywood superstar Bill Cosby.

The story...

Clelia Gore is one of the amazing faculty members who will be sharing their insights at the Marvelous Midwest Conference in May. She kindly agreed to answer a few questions for the SCBWI-WI blog. 

In your intensive “Navigating the Nonfiction Market,” one of the insights...

Elizabeth Smart has made television history by bringing together six fellow survivors of America's most famous abductions. 

Smart, who was held captive for nine months when she was 14 years old, wanted to unite the women so they could together help Jayme Closs. Jayme, 1...

Too often, teens are lazily thought of as apathetic and self-centred. 

But a new generation of young activists has proved that many teenagers are, in fact, deeply concerned with social, political and environmental issues - and they’re fully prepared to do something abou...

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST NICKI WEISENSEE EGAN’S history with Bill Cosby dates back to the early ’80s, when she turned to The Cosby Show to cope with her older brother’s death. She never imagined that, more than two decades later, she would be assigned to cover the sexu...