How journalists decide whether to interview by phone, email or face-to-face?

"I recently came across a 1997 American Journalism Review story that discussed “the newest communication tool” for journalists: email interviews.

In the years since, stories highlighting email interviews have often placed journalists into two camps: those who think they’re acceptable and those who don’t. But as I’ve learned from my own interviewing methods and from talking with other journalists, the issue’s not that black and white."

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INSIDE ART: The War Photographer, Way Back in 1666

For decades now we have relied on news photography to capture the horrors of war. But some 350 years ago there were artists risking their lives, sketching away as soldiers and sailors fell and guns blazed.

An unusual canvas by Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger, depicting a 1666 British naval defeat, is being offered at Sotheby’s.

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