2024
2023
Winter 2023
What Open-Source Journalism Reveals
Spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, open-source investigations are being integrated into standard newsroom practice
2022
Winter 2022
The New Look of the Labor Beat
From Covid-19 to the #MeToo movement, workplace coverage is resurgent
Spring 2022
Fighting for a Free Press in Ukraine — and Beyond
Nieman Reports takes a look at how Ukrainian journalists are reporting on the war in their home, the costs of reporting accurately on the invasion, and the growing threats to press freedom under Putin
2021
Summer-Fall 2021
Lessons From The Pandemic
Hope that the coronavirus is finally being brought under control has prompted plans for a return to “normal.” But can, or should, journalism return to a pre-pandemic “normal?”
Spring 2021
Covering The Police
How coverage of the police is changing, from crowdsourced investigations to centering victim accounts
2020
Fall 2020
The Newsrooms We Need Now
In a series of essays, thought leaders reflect and offer prescriptions for what the news industry needs to do.
Summer 2020
Racial Reckoning
How the reinvigorated movement for racial justice and the pandemic are prompting newsrooms to fundamentally rethink how stories are covered — and by whom
2019
Fall 2019
Journalism Under Fire in Hong Kong
Pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets: The Hong Kong protests are also a fight for a free press
Summer 2019
Not a 'Crime of Passion'
Covering domestic violence as an urgent social crisis, not a private family matter