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Challenging Ideas

Looking back what would they do differently? Six editors take a hard look at newspapers and what it will take for them to stay alive. More investigative journalism, more training,…

Spring 2012: Class Notes

1950Read his obituary in The Salt Lake Tribune.Hays Gorey, a longtime political correspondent for Time magazine, died at a health care facility in Salt Lake City on April 5th, 2011,…

Facing Putin

Masha Gessen on the Russian leader’s totalitarian regime and the weaknesses of U.S. media coverage of her country
Transit: An Assignment and an Idea—Now a Book, Exhibit and Website

Transit: An Assignment and an Idea—Now a Book, Exhibit and Website

An Essay in Words and Photographs
A Way to Understand the World

A Way to Understand the World

An Essay in Words and Photographs

Feeling It’s a Book, Then Pausing to Wonder If It Is

‘Does the fact that this story hasn’t been told mean that there’s not enough to tell it?’

Winter 2011: Class Notes

Annual Report Chronicles Foundation’s GrowthThe past year has been a time of transition and new beginnings for the Nieman Foundation. Bob Giles, NF ’66, retired as Nieman curator, wrapping up…

Tom Wicker, Political Columnist for The New York Times, Dies at 85

Tom Wicker, at Attica prison in 1971, spoke and wrote with force and conviction. Photo by Michael Evans/The New York Times.Tom Wicker, NF ’58, a columnist and Washington bureau chief…

Grateful for Well-Timed Words From Wicker

RELATED ARTICLE“Tom Wicker, Political Columnist for The New York Times, Dies at 85”Tom and I worked together in the Washington bureau of The New York Times for some six years—I…

Compelling Story, Unflappable Belief, and Digital Teamwork

How does a journalist make the journey to author? A variety of paths and potential pitfalls are here for you to learn from. Authors of memoirs, novels and nonfiction narratives…