Issue Archive

2024

Winter/Spring 2024

'Unparalleled and Unprecedented'

With dozens dead and many more wounded, journalists in Gaza have faced the deadliest six months ever recorded

Summer 2024

Warped

Election stakes couldn’t be higher. The media is still struggling to meet the moment

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

Spring 2023

Journalism in Exile

Media outlets continue to conduct vital reporting and hold the powerful account from afar, setting up posts in France, Thailand, Costa Rica, and beyond

Summer 2023

Riding the A.I. Wave

How newsrooms can harness the power of artificial intelligence

Fall 2023

85th Anniversary Issue: The Story I Couldn't Let Go

“Stories stalk you. Stories beguile you. They bewitch you. It’s not easy to fend them off, even when you’ve vowed you will,” Susan Orlean writes in our Fall 2023 issue, which commemorates the Nieman Foundation’s 85th anniversary

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

Summer 2022

Reporting at Risk

Essays by journalists who are managing to do vital independent reporting — often at great personal risk

Fall 2022

How Political Coverage is Changing to Get Beyond Polarization

In this issue, Nieman Reports explores how newsrooms are advancing political coverage that considers voters rather than just vote-seekers, explores divisions without oversimplifying or overstating them, and identifies not only the existence of problems but possible solutions — a practice that in turn makes the reporting more useful and even more accurate

2021

Summer-Fall 2021

Lessons From The Pandemic

Spring 2021

Covering The Police

Winter 2021

What's Next...

2020

Fall 2020

The Newsrooms We Need Now

Summer 2020

Racial Reckoning

Spring 2020

Covering the Coronavirus

As the world continues to grapple with the health, social, and financial implications of the coronavirus pandemic, journalists have responded to the unprecedented challenge of covering a crisis that has left few people’s lives untouched — all while their own lives, and livelihoods, have been upended.