Winter is Nieman’s season of dreams. The applications pour in from elite newsrooms and single-person startups, from G8 nations and nearly invisible economies. Most of the international files arrive electronically, but some come to us handwritten, penned and pieced … Read more
inewsource grew out of the desperation that was sweeping newsrooms across the country in 2009. I was a senior editor for metro and investigations at The San Diego Union-Tribune, and I’d spent way too much time discussing potential layoffs. Read more
John A. McDermott founded The Chicago Reporter in 1972. Despite his best intentions, the Reporter is still around today. A civil rights activist who stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his 1966 fair housing campaign in … Read more
Professor Achille Mbembe, left, spoke with Greg Marinovich and other 2014 Nieman Fellows about the new global condition, in which the south and the north are … Read more
The National Security Agency has been accused of collecting data from the servers of web companies like Google, whose data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa is pictured here. Image … Read more
Former South African President Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. Photo by Greg Marinovich As the world grapples with the death of Nelson Mandela, journalists are reflecting on … Read more
In 1990, an elderly man emerged from 27 years in prison into a country whose future was balanced on a knife-edge and which the world had long believed would not be able to escape the inevitable fate of all oppressive … Read more
“Dirty Wars,” Jeremy Scahill’s exposé on the U.S. government’s tactics for fighting terrorism since September 11, 2001, is Steve Weinberg’s pick for best investigative journalism book of 2013. Read more
Pippa Green, second from left, was on the platform with Nelson Mandela when he received an honorary degree from Harvard during a special ceremony in September 1998. On the … Read more
Outside Nelson Mandela’s residence in Houghton, Johannesburg. Photo by Nadia Tromp The trumpet cries, fading into nothingness, then strong again, as the crowd heaves and sways to the sounds of “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” … Read more
