A 2011 Nieman Fellow, Florence Martin-Kessler attended a vigil in honor of the slain Charlie Hebdo journalists on Wednesday night. “It was very silent, very crowded,” said Martin-Kessler, editor in chief of Live Magazine. “So it was not a march. It … Read more
After looking at start-ups for their book, “The Monkey That Won a Pulitzer,” two Italian journalists launched a project that uses motion graphics to tell news stories with context. Read more
Nicola Bruno’s provocative piece about machines replacing journalists is among the essays featured in this section of Nieman Reports. Other writers take us inside Tehran’s Evin prison, where Iran held Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari for nearly four months after he covered the 2009 election protests, and to Afghanistan, where women reporters write about frontline experiences. In Indonesia, the topic shifts to media coverage of sectarian violence, while a professor in the U.S. ponders the possibility of consensus-building journalism. Reporting on the financial crisis raises for one journalist the question of whether it should be covered as a crime story. Read more
I am developing a framework for consensus-building journalism, what I call the C-bJ model. I believe it can be a starting point for collaboration with media outlets. For such meshing to work effectively, mediation training and the adapting of journalism … Read more
Steve Weinberg writes about the inner fire that made Jack Anderson love to kick Nixon around, Dan Kennedy looks at a new take on the complicated life of Marshall McLuhan, and j-school student Christina Kim reconsiders her options after reading Tom Rachman’s novel about a failing newspaper. In addition to these three books, the latest issue of Nieman Reports highlights “The Deal From Hell” by James O’Shea and “The Filter Bubble” by Eli Pariser. Read more
RELATED ARTICLE “The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists” -Steve WeinbergIn 1989, Little, Brown and Company published my biography of industrialist Armand Hammer, and then Hammer sued me for defamation, as … Read more
