‘… too many of those with heavy investments in the diversity crusade either read my arguments wrong or preferred not to review their investments.’ Read more
At 10:33 p.m. on the night of February 8, 1968, eight to 10 seconds of police gunfire left three young black men dying and 27 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. Exactly 33 years … Read more
This list of recommended books has been assembled by Boyce Rensberger, director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It represents only a start on background reading and is not meant as an exhaustive compilation. Read more
Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, reviews “Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know,” by Arthur Rowse. Anil Padmanabhan, a 2001 Nieman Fellow and economic affairs editor for Business Standard … Read more
Preferred Lies and Other Tales: Skimming the Cream of a Life in Sports Jack Whitaker Simon and Schuster. 272 Pages. $24.There is a movie scene that haunts just about every serious … Read more
Salant, CBS, and The Battle for the Soul of American Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant Compiled and Edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg Eastview Press. 331 Pages. $27.Dick Salant, … Read more
Ted Poston: Pioneering American Journalist Kathleen Hauke University of Georgia Press. 326 Pages. $29.95.In today’s age of hyper-speed journalism, where news cycles change hourly and consumers can get stories at the … Read more
This is excerpted from a December 18 Nieman seminar in which Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, offered his perspective on foreign news coverage. Question: Why should the average American newspaper reader care about … Read more
