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

How newsrooms are advancing political coverage that considers voters rather than just vote-seekers

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

Winter 2021

What's Next...

What’s next for journalism’s post-Trump challenges, for reporting on the Biden White House and for the political weaponization of “fake news”

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

Spring 2020

Covering the Coronavirus

How the pandemic is being covered around the world, how this public health crisis is highlighting the crucial rule of local news, and more

Winter 2020

How to Make Climate Coverage Personal, Relevant, and Urgent

Journalists and news organizations who are working in innovative ways to make climate coverage more personal, urgent, and engrossing

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

Spring 2019

Why Newsrooms are Unionizing Now

Journalists at legacy and digital newsrooms respond to an industry in crisis with a new wave of organizing

Winter 2019

Journalism Under Pressure

Violence, political attacks, layoffs … and still doing vital work

2018

Summer-Fall 2018

Nieman 80: Journalism That Makes a Difference

Niemans on the 80 pieces of journalism that had the biggest impact on their own work

Spring 2018

Reinventing Local TV News

Innovative stations push to attract younger audiences

Winter 2018

Covering Addiction

Questions the media should ask and recovery stories that need to be told

2017

Fall 2017

The News Industry Has a Sexual Harassment Problem. #NowWhat?

Summer 2017

Where Are the Mothers?

Spring 2017

A New Focus

Winter 2017

Covering Sexual Assault

2016

Fall 2016

What Journalists Must Do Next

Summer 2016

The Pulitzer Centennial

Spring 2016

Covering the Campaign

Winter 2016

Beyond the “Coming Out” Story

2015

Fall 2015

Storytelling and Social Media

Summer 2015

Automation in the Newsroom

Spring 2015

Race and Reporting

Winter 2015

The Offending Art

2014

Fall 2014

The Future of Foreign News

Summer 2014

Where Are the Women?

Spring 2014

Rewriting J-School

Winter 2014

The State of Journalism in China

2013

Summer-Fall 2013

75th Anniversary Issue

Spring 2013

The Signal and the Noise

Winter 2013

Critical Condition

2012

Fall 2012

Be the Disruptor

Summer 2012

Truth in the Age of Social Media

Spring 2012

What Would You Change If You Were Back In Charge

2011

Winter 2011

Writing the Book

Fall 2011

Cold Case Reporting

Summer 2011

Links that Bind Us

Spring 2011

Shattering Barriers to Reveal Corruption

2010

Winter 2010

The Beat Goes On - Its Rhythm Changes

Fall 2010

Reporting From Faraway Places: Who Does It and How?

Summer 2010

The Digital Landscape: What's Next for News?

Spring 2010

Visual Journalism

2009

Winter 2009

Trauma in the Aftermath

Fall 2009

Let's Talk: Journalism and Social Media

Summer 2009

Iran: Can Its Stories Be Told?

Spring 2009

Voyages of Discovery Into New Media

2008

Winter 2008

The Search for True North: New Directions in a New Territory

Fall 2008

Staying Local, Digging Deep

Summer 2008

Cameras, Action and Accountability

Spring 2008

21st Century Muckrakers

2007

Winter 2007

Is Local News the Answer?

Fall 2007

Katrina's Aftermath: News With No End in Sight

Summer 2007

Islam: Reporting in Context and With Complexity

Spring 2007

Afghanistan: Stories Come Back Into View

2006

Winter 2006

Goodbye Gutenberg

Fall 2006

Global Migration and Immigration: Stories and Images About the Journey

Summer 2006

Journalists: On the Subject of Courage

Spring 2006

What Katrina Revealed, Will Journalists Now Cover?

2005

Winter 2005

Citizen Journalism

Fall 2005

Covering Indian Country

Summer 2005

Eroding Freedoms: Secrecy, Truth and Sources

Spring 2005

Water: A Life Force Harnessed as News

2004

Winter 2004

Editorial Cartoons: The Impact and Issues of an Evolving Craft

Fall 2004

Africa: Stories to Be Told

Summer 2004

The Energy Beat: Complex and Compelling

Spring 2004

Water: A Life Force Harnessed as News

2003

Winter 2003

Can Newspapers Reach the Young?

Fall 2003

Journalism and Black America: Then and Now

Summer 2003

Medical Reporting

Spring 2003

Reporting on Health

2002

Winter 2002

Reporting on the INS

Fall 2002

Science Journalism

Summer 2002

Reporting on Business: Enron and Beyond

Spring 2002

Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference

2001

Winter 2001

Coverage of Terrorism

Fall 2001

The Documentary and Journalism: Where They Converge

Summer 2001

Latino Voices: Journalism By and About Latinos

Spring 2001

Colombia: The War Against Journalists

2000

Winter 2000

Technology Is Changing Journalism Just as It Always Has

Fall 2000

Photojournalism: Pondering the Power of Images and the Risks Taken by Those Who Make Them

Summer 2000

Election 2000: Politicians and the Press

Winter 1999 - Spring 2000

Commemorative Double Issue

1999

Winter 1999 - Spring 2000

Commemorative Double Issue

Fall 1999

The Press in Russia

Summer 1999

War Crimes, Human Rights and Press Freedom: The Journalist's Job

Spring 1999

Educating Journalists

Special Issue 1999

The Business of News, The News About Business

1998

Winter 1998

Children and Violence

Fall 1998

Serving the Poor

Summer 1998

Photojournalism Dead? It's Just Changing With the Times

Spring 1998

Watchdog, Attack Dog, or Lapdog?

1997

Winter 1997

Highways, Byways and Bylines: Roads as News Stories

Roads as News Stories

Fall 1997

The Faith of Journalists

Does their religion help or hinder them professionally?

Summer 1997

Reengineering Society With Economic Shock Therapy

Spring 1997

Welfare - Media Opportunity