Nieman Reports

Mixed Signals

Features

Mixed Signals

FM radio kept the NPR system resilient well into the digital age. Now the lifeline is fraying.

Gabe Bullard

‘A Mad, Headlong Poverty-Stricken Rush’ Across South America ‘A Mad, Headlong Poverty-Stricken Rush’ Across South America

Books

‘A Mad, Headlong Poverty-Stricken Rush’ Across South America

A new book about expat journalists in Brazil details Hunter S. Thompson’s early career.

Stephen G. Bloom

Picking Up Where Slain Journalists Leave Off Picking Up Where Slain Journalists Leave Off

Sounding

Picking Up Where Slain Journalists Leave Off

For Sandrine Rigaud, NF ’25, a multicultural childhood opened a path to Forbidden Stories.

Sandrine Rigaud

The Future of American Democracy Amid Deepening Polarization The Future of American Democracy Amid Deepening Polarization

Live @ Lippmann

The Future of American Democracy Amid Deepening Polarization

Harvard professor Archon Fung on the country’s political divisions and strategies for reaching across party lines.

Interview

How the AP Calls Elections

Interview

How the AP Calls Elections

Going behind the scenes with former Associated Press executive editor and Nieman visiting fellow, Sally Buzbee

Megan Cattel

KUER in Salt Lake City Has Launched Utah's First Bilingual Radio Station

Interview

KUER in Salt Lake City Has Launched Utah's First Bilingual Radio Station

The aim is to reach Utah’s growing Spanish-speaking population.

Helen Li

A Newsroom Where Everyone Has a Seat at the Table

Interview

A Newsroom Where Everyone Has a Seat at the Table

The 51st, a worker-led outlet, launches in the wake of DCist’s demise.

Marigo Farr

Visual Journalism

The Hands That Bring Day of the Dead to Life

Visual Journalism

The Hands That Bring Day of the Dead to Life

Greta Rico

Visual Journalism

Up to Bat

A photographer chronicles Las Amazonas of Yaxunah, an Indigenous women’s softball team that’s challenging gender norms in rural Mexico.

Bénédicte Desrus

Visual Journalism

What’s at Stake on the Ocean Floor

As governments and mining companies push to extract minerals from the deep sea, conservationists — and nature — warn us of the potential long-lasting ramifications

Laurel Chor

A Place for Food, Housing, and Dignity

Visual Journalism

A Place for Food, Housing, and Dignity

Bénédicte Desrus

Summer 2024 Magzine

Saving the First Draft of History

Journalist’s Trade

Saving the First Draft of History

Archiving wasn’t perfect in the analog days, but preserving journalism in the digital age is increasingly complicated.

Gabe Bullard

Features

‘We Had No Place to Save the Stories’

Ann Cooper

Features

As Press Freedoms Erode in Bangladesh, Political Cartoonists Are Being Targeted by An Increasingly Authoritarian Regime

Sheikh Sabiha Alam

Features

Journalists See “Clear, Alarming Signals” for Press Freedom in Italy

Stefania D'Ignoti

Opinion

You’re as Good as Your Best Byline

Opinion

You’re as Good as Your Best Byline

A love letter to the journalists who toil

Katherine Lewis

Journalists Can Do Better Covering Mass Shootings 

Opinion

Journalists Can Do Better Covering Mass Shootings 

New recommended best practices reflect the experiences and concerns of survivors, who often feel exploited.

Amanda J. Crawford

The Long, Slow Death of the Newspaper Editorial

Opinion

The Long, Slow Death of the Newspaper Editorial

The same forces that gutted basic news reporting have claimed another casualty.

Paul Farhi

Live @ Lippmann

The Future of American Democracy Amid Deepening Polarization

Live @ Lippmann

The Future of American Democracy Amid Deepening Polarization

Harvard professor Archon Fung on the country’s political divisions and strategies for reaching across party lines.
How the Russian Independent Media Archive Is Defying Censorship — and Saving History

Live @ Lippmann

How the Russian Independent Media Archive Is Defying Censorship — and Saving History

Co-founders Masha Gessen and Ilia Venyavkin on how the RIMA is preserving the work of Russian independent media for future generations.
“Are You Going to Contribute to the Chaos? Or Are You Going to Thread Through and Be the Expert?”

Live @ Lippmann

“Are You Going to Contribute to the Chaos? Or Are You Going to Thread Through and Be the Expert?”

Maria Ressa and Glenda M. Gloria, NF ‘18, on standing up to dictators, big tech, and disinformation

International Journalism

How Ukrainian Media Is Navigating the Challenge of Reporting Ethically on the Russian Invasion

International Journalism

How Ukrainian Media Is Navigating the Challenge of Reporting Ethically on the Russian Invasion

Many news organizations are adapting to the realities brought by the ongoing conflict.

Chine Labbé

The Story Behind Doha Fashion Fridays The Story Behind Doha Fashion Fridays

International Journalism

The Story Behind Doha Fashion Fridays

Since 2016, the pair behind the Instagram account have been documenting the migrant experience in Qatar.

Aparna Jayakumar

Lithuania’s Public Broadcaster and Commercial Rivals Clash over State Funding Lithuania’s Public Broadcaster and Commercial Rivals Clash over State Funding

Features International Journalism

Lithuania’s Public Broadcaster and Commercial Rivals Clash over State Funding

hen the Soviet army moved to crush a powerful pro-independence movement in its republic of Lithuania in 1991, the military’s list of targets included Lithuania’s broadcast studios and TV transmission tower, which for months had defiantly sent out news free of Soviet censorship. The bloodiest attack came when tanks rumbled up the TV tower hill […]

Ann Cooper

In Lebanon, a Bold New Era for Accountability Journalism In Lebanon, a Bold New Era for Accountability Journalism

Features International Journalism Watchdog

In Lebanon, a Bold New Era for Accountability Journalism

even years before the largest explosion since Hiroshima obliterated a large part of the port of Beirut in August, claimed some 200 lives, and left some 300,000 homeless, port authorities who could have prevented the blast assaulted and detained investigative TV journalist Riad Kobaissi and his crew. In 2013, Kobaissi had taken a bullhorn to […]

Habib Battah