Archive: Jun 2003

Medical Journalism Training

Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 2003

Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. As one of the nation’s first master’s programs in medical journalism, the two-year experience emphasizes writing skills for print and broadcast media. Read more

German Skepticism About America’s Intent and Goals in Iraq

By Martin Gehlen• June 15, 2003

One headline called it ‘The worst invasion of Baghdad since the Mongols.’ Read more

Summer 2003: Watchdog Reporting Introduction

By Melissa Ludtke• Watchdog• June 15, 2003

As part of the Nieman Foundation’s Watchdog Journalism Project, Nieman Reports is featuring two articles about watchdog reporting. In the first, Deborah Henley, executive editor of The (Delaware) News Journal, writes about her newspaper’s many years of legal struggles … Read more

Getting a More Complete War Story

By Rami G. Khouri• June 15, 2003

Arab + U.S. television = more accurate war coverage. Read more

Summer 2003: Introduction

By Melissa Ludtke• June 15, 2003

It’s always been a tug-of-war between secretive government officials and those whose job it is—the press—to hold them and their actions accountable. In peaceful times, no elected leaders, no appointed administrators want their decisions rigorously examined, policies held up to … Read more

Medical Reporting In a Highly Commercialized Environment

By John Abramson• Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 2003

A family doctor prescribes eight guiding principles for accurate and fair coverage of research findings. Read more

Constraints on China’s Coverage of SARS

By Philip J. Cunningham• Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 2003

For a variety of reasons, neither the government nor the press handled the medical crisis well. Read more

Summer 2003: Words & Reflections Introduction

By Melissa Ludtke• Opinion• June 15, 2003

Is it possible for truth to exist in journalism? This question resides at the core of “The Press Effect: Politicians and the Stories That Shape the Political World,” a book written by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman. Seth … Read more

Readers Question Editors’ Judgments About War Coverage

By Michael Getler• June 15, 2003

‘Where were these stories when, over the last year, Bush was building up his “case” for war?’ Read more

The Emotional Toll of Reporting on a Cancer Trial

By Jenni Laidman• Journalist’s Trade• June 15, 2003

‘I’d essentially planned to do a story about dying people with no real hope of a cure acting as guinea pigs.’ Read more