Nieman Reports

The Future of Foreign News

As Legacy News Outlets Retreat, Who Will Be There to Report on the World?

By Joshua Hammer• Features• December 11, 2014

In October, as Ebola raged out of control and unsettled much of the world, I began making plans for a reporting trip to West Africa. I had covered a minor outbreak of Ebola in Uganda for … Read more

A New Generation of Correspondents Hustles for Work with the Help of the Web

By John Dyer• Features• December 11, 2014

In March, when it became clear something big was happening in Crimea, Jacob Resneck packed his knapsack with a laptop, sound recorder and camera and boarded a one-way flight from his adopted hometown, Istanbul, to the peninsula on the … Read more

Why Journalists Take the Risk to Report from Dangerous Places

By Tyler Hicks• Live @ Lippmann• December 11, 2014

Ninety-five percent of my job is just to get to places, to read body language, to get past people who are trying to stop me from taking my pictures. The other five percent is once you realize you’re in … Read more

Embracing Encryption in an Age of Surveillance

By Michael Fitzgerald• Technology• December 11, 2014

Modern communications and the rise of the surveillance state make it harder than ever for journalists abroad to protect their sources. The consequences for sources can be dire, even fatal. Journalists going abroad need to start by asking if … Read more

Adopting Journalistic Techniques at the United Nations

By Iason Athanasiadis• Opinion• December 12, 2014

Looked at from a certain angle, the United Nations could be the world’s biggest news organization, with well-staffed bureaus in most crisis zones. Rather than one harried correspondent covering everything across several countries, the U.N. has desks dedicated to human … Read more

The Education of a Foreign Correspondent

By Janine di Giovanni• International Journalism• December 12, 2014

In 1992, when I went to Sarajevo as a young and idealistic reporter to cover the Balkan wars, there were no hostile environment courses and no PTSD de-briefings. We learned about safety from the bad fortune of others. It was … Read more

Features

Who Owns the News in Indonesia?

By Wahyu Dhyatmika• Features• December 11, 2014

A couple months before Indonesia’s presidential election last July, all the members of the VIVAnews editorial board received a strongly-worded e-mail. The sender was the popular news site’s boss, Anindra Ardiansyah Bakrie, known as “Ardie,” the son of Indonesian … Read more

Nieman Watchdog

What GamerGate Can Teach Journalists About Handling Twitter Storms

By Helen Lewis• Watchdog• December 11, 2014

Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism.” Earlier this year, this simple sentence came to encapsulate a vicious online debate. Was the social media storm known as “GamerGate” an honest attempt to expose the cozy relationship between the video … Read more

Nieman Storyboard

New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

By Kate Galbraith• From Nieman Reports• December 11, 2014

In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned, young Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Nehme yearned to play a role in the changes sweeping the Middle East. The region’s print media, he believed, didn’t measure up to the hopes of the demonstrators, … Read more

Fall 2014

The Future of Foreign News

The Future of Foreign News

As Legacy News Outlets Retreat, Who Will Be There to Report on the World?

A New Generation of Correspondents Hustles for Work with the Help of the Web

Why Journalists Take the Risk to Report from Dangerous Places

Embracing Encryption in an Age of Surveillance

Adopting Journalistic Techniques at the United Nations

The Education of a Foreign Correspondent

Features

Who Owns the News in Indonesia?

Nieman Watchdog

What GamerGate Can Teach Journalists About Handling Twitter Storms

Nieman Storyboard

New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

From the Curator

Honoring Anja Niedringhaus by Supporting Future Visual Journalists

By Ann Marie Lipinski

Live@Lippmann

David Finkel and the Art of Immersion Reporting

By David Finkel

Niemans@Work

Lorie Conway, NF ’94, tells the story of Beatrice Mtetwa, defender of justice

By Lorie Conway

Kalpana Jain, NF ’09, teaches girls in India to report stories the media misses

By Kalpana Jain

Cristian Lupsa, NF ’14, on narrative’s inroads in Romania

By Cristian Lupșa

Books

What’s the Difference Between Activism and Journalism?

By Joel Simon

Sounding

Telling Complicated, Beautiful Stories About Chicago

By Dawn Turner

Nieman Lab

Low effort, high reward: Defining quality in news has to value the user experience

By Joshua Benton

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