Articles 12 Things BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith Thinks You Should Know about Journalism Ben Smith became editor in chief of BuzzFeed in 2011 when the website known for its listicles and cat photos got into the business of breaking news. Smith, an early… February 28, 2014 Scientists, Journalists and the Quest for Objectivity Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert said there is a scientific basis for the advice that mothers give about how to be happy: get married, make money, and have children. The… February 28, 2014 Parsing Politics in China, Egypt, and an Orthodox Jewish Community Harvard law professor Noah Feldman spoke to the 2014 Nieman Fellows about the intense scrutiny and criticism he faced after writing about his work in Tunisia and writing a personal… February 24, 2014 Master of the Craft Through his scrupulously researched books chronicling the rise to power of President Lyndon Johnson and New York urban planner Robert Moses, Robert A. Caro, NF ’66, set a new standard… February 19, 2014 Anne Hull Command and Control The Communist Party has long striven to control freedom of speech in China. Websites from around the world are blocked. Major social media cannot be accessed, and advanced software is… February 18, 2014 Paul Mooney Big Data, Income Mobility, and the American Dream Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty shows a data visualization model that The New York Times created from research he and his colleagues did on income mobility in the United States.… February 14, 2014 Jessie Schanzle James Risen’s First Amendment Battle For six years, New York Times national security reporter James Risen has been fighting to keep his promise of anonymity to a source who told him about a failed CIA… February 13, 2014 Jan Gardner Keeping the Faith The idea for New Canadian Media came to me at the 2009 Nieman Narrative Conference. During a workshop session I met an editor named Andrew Lam who, like me, is… February 13, 2014 George Abraham Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the 2013 Joe Alex Morris… February 12, 2014 Jonathan Seitz Clear and Present Danger In the fall of 2013, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) quietly began booting up its Utah Data Center, a sprawling 1.5 million-square-foot facility designed to store and analyze the… February 10, 2014 Geoffrey King Previous 1 … 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 … 430 Next