[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of Nieman Reports.] For whom do reporters write? For the readers? Well, yes and no. After two years inside a daily newspaper, I have concluded that among the hundreds of stories … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1980 issue of Nieman Reports.] Martin Chuzzlewit, the hero of Dickens’s novel of that name, sails to the United States on a packet boat. As the boat reaches New York harbor, it is … Read more
Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald. [This article originally appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.] For at least a … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the April 1952 issue of Nieman Reports.] Thomas Jefferson, in a famous letter to Edward Carrington, wrote his much-quoted line, “were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers, or … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the July 1955 issue of Nieman Reports.] …So revolutionary a change in the role of the American citizen was bound to have its effect on American newspapers. For many years we newspapermen had given the … Read more
