During the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize dinner, New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick talked about the work that went into his award-winning series “Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses.” Nieman curator Ann Marie Lipinski and journalist Clara … Read more
Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, came to the throne in 1999. Since then, he has expanded the rights of women, modernized his country, and established Bahrain as a financial center in the region. Two years ago, on … Read more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Hajar Boughoula of Tunisia writes a message on the ground with chalk near a makeshift memorial for fallen MIT police officer Sean Collier on the school’s campus in Cambridge. Read more
The demographics of the United States are rapidly changing and Latinos are playing an increasingly important role in politics and in the nation’s broader public discourse. During a special … Read more
Clark Gilbert is president and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and Deseret Digital Media. But before he took over the Salt Lake City-based newspaper and television company, he was professor of entrepreneurial management at the … Read more
Lawrence Lessig, in conversation with Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski. Photo by Jonathan Seitz. [View the story “The Man from Lesterland” on Storify] … Read more
A still from the video shot by David Abel. As part of his Nieman Fellowship, Boston Globe reporter David Abel is taking a class on how to make documentary films. Yesterday he … Read more
Twitter coverage of the manhunt in Watertown marks a wake-up call to journalists everywhere. Even more remarkable are the implications for ordinary citizens who, without a press pass, intentionally plant themselves on the scene to witness and tweet what they … Read more
Photojournalist and filmmaker Molly Bingham writes that good journalism takes time—including time on the ground. And if we can't find some way to afford it, then our journalism will suffer. Third in a series of Q. and A.’s with former Nieman Fellows about the past, present and future of watchdog reporting. Read more
A selection of stories by Niemans about the Boston attacks The explosions at the Boston Marathon made front-page news around the world, with Liberation in Paris, El Pais in Madrid, and The Jerusalem Post in Israel carrying coverage … Read more
