Articles

Remembering Tony Lewis

Anthony Lewis at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in January 2013. Photo by Jonathan Seitz Tony Lewis was a welcome presence at Lippmann House. In my early years as curator,…

Jailed for Seeking Justice

Beatrice Mtetwa visiting her old elementary school. Image taken from the film “Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law”“You know this has to be done, somebody has to do it,…

Chinua Achebe: Unstoppable, Unbeatable

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of “Things Fall Apart,” died on March 11. Photo by Craig Ruddle/The Associated PressThe story of Africa and the insight many have into her traditions…

What Happened in Qubair

Deborah Amos, NF ’92, on covering a massacre in a central Syrian farming village

No Such Thing as “Foreign” Anymore

Maria Balinska, NF ’10, on why it’s time to mash up local and global news

The Story Behind ‘Playing With Fire’

In April 2011, Chicago Tribune reporter Patricia Callahan sat in a California Senate hearing, listening in rapt attention as burn surgeon David Heimbach described in excruciating detail how a seven-week-old…

“Truth Is Not About What the Majority Believes”

Documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris on how we are all error-generating machines

Complicated Matters

Veteran investigative journalist Ken Armstrong, NF ’01, encourages his fellow reporters to look for patterns rather than isolated anecdotes, to focus on what others have to say rather than joust…

The Jobs Crisis

Job creation is a key topic in the presidential election but so far it's been all sound bites and no substance. Dan Froomkin, a new contributing editor to Nieman Reports…

Ghosts Speaking Across the Page

They died the same weekend, one 26, a prodigy of the Internet age who took his own life, the other an 89-year-old whose moral battles were waged on newsprint and…