Nieman Reports

Amidst Crackdowns, Kashmiri Journalists Struggle to Report

With communication restrictions creating dueling narratives of what's happening, Kashmiri journalists are fighting to keep people informed

By Toufiq Rashid

How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today

By Christopher R. Martin

Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence

Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Where is the line between respecting the needs of survivors or the deceased and the public’s need to know?

By Tara Pixley

Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence in Chile: Calling Out Femicide

There is growing pressure on the media not to romanticize femicide as a “crime melodrama”

By Paula Molina

Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence in Kenya: Stop Blaming Women

Much reporting tends to blame women for their own deaths while providing sympathetic coverage of alleged perpetrators

By Christine Mungai

Cover Story: Covering Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence in China: Educating the Public

A new law making domestic violence a civil infraction is increasing awareness of the abuse one in four married women have experienced

By Jieqi Luo

From the Curator

“If You Want to Save Democracy, You First Must Save Yourself”

With the U.S. president no longer defending the essential role of journalism in a democracy, news outlets worldwide step up their fight for survival

By Ann Marie Lipinski

Opinion

Political Polarization and the Press

What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it

By James Geary

Opinion: Ethics

Mueller’s Testimony: Journalists Allow “Optics” to Triumph Over Substance

From Colin Powell’s 2003 U.N. presentation to Robert Mueller’s Russia testimony, reporters have prioritized the optics instead of the journalism

By Issac J. Bailey

Niemans @ Work

Watching “the true saga of the climate crisis unfold” in global communities big and small: John Sutter, NF ’19, seeks to make a multi-generational climate change documentary

By John D. Sutter

Niemans @ Work

After 32 Years, Free at Last: Investigative journalism students taught by Jenifer McKim, NF ’08, play a key role in overturning a conviction

By Jenifer McKim

Opinion: Ethics

Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet: This Is What Racism Looks Like

White journalists have to get over their blind spots and start calling out racism

By Issac J. Bailey

Recent Stories

With communication restrictions creating dueling narratives of what's happening, Kashmiri journalists are fighting to keep people informed

A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today

Where is the line between respecting the needs of survivors or the deceased and the public’s need to know?

There is growing pressure on the media not to romanticize femicide as a “crime melodrama”

Much reporting tends to blame women for their own deaths while providing sympathetic coverage of alleged perpetrators

A new law making domestic violence a civil infraction is increasing awareness of the abuse one in four married women have experienced

With the U.S. president no longer defending the essential role of journalism in a democracy, news outlets worldwide step up their fight for survival

What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it

From Colin Powell’s 2003 U.N. presentation to Robert Mueller’s Russia testimony, reporters have prioritized the optics instead of the journalism

White journalists have to get over their blind spots and start calling out racism