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
Secrecy: The American Experience Daniel Patrick Moynihan Yale University Press. 262 Pages. $22.50. A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know Edited by Athan G. Theoharis University Press of Kansas. 245 … Read more
This article is excerpted from a paper prepared by Roy Gutman, a correspondent for Newsday, for the International Studies Association conference held in Vienna, Austria in September 1998. Human rights abuses, war crimes and impunity are the stuff of … Read more
Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died on the runway of … Read more
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death Susan D. Moeller Routledge. 390 Pages. $27.50.Any reporter working in the twilight of the Cold War and into the 1990’s knows … Read more
As foreign reporting struggles to find its foothold in the news that Americans watch, listen to and read, reporters write books about human tragedies they observe. They hope someone will pay attention. We open this section by examining some current … Read more
If the 1998 elections represented the maturation of “public journalism,” then pre-election news coverage should have reflected more astutely the concerns and motivations of voters rather than the spin of professional image-makers and pundits. In North Carolina, where I work, … Read more
Richard Reeves, old tad reporter of the finest kind, tells us in salty, joyous prose exactly how and why journalism has metamorphosized. No fooling around. And guess what, this former New York Timesman does not despair as much as one … Read more
Spin Cycle: How the White House and the Media Manipulate the News Howard Kurtz Touchstone. 327 Pages. $14 pb.Those looking for a balanced, critical appraisal of press performance in the Monica Lewinsky … Read more
Imaging Education: the Media and Schools in America Edited by Gene I. Maeroff Teachers College Press. 240 Pages. $50 hc, $23.95 pb.In the winter 1997 edition of Nieman Reports, I issued the … Read more
