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A Promising Collaboration of Place, Time and Niche

Community members come together to examine Detroit’s financial challenges. Photo by Ellen Jacob.RELATED ARTICLES“Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs”– Bill Mitchell“A New Partnership to Build a…
June 10, 2011
Lynette Clemetson

A New Partnership to Build a Common Understanding

Detroit’s challenges hold the attention of those who reside in its 143 square miles. Photo by Ellen Jacob.RELATED ARTICLES“Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs”– Bill Mitchell“A…
June 10, 2011
Shirley Stancato

Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs

‘… residents need to have journalism delivered as they want to consume it and in ways that will encourage them to move beyond absorbing news to acting on it.’
June 10, 2011
Bill Mitchell

A Community Watches a Story Unfold

‘It was risky to reveal parts of the story as it unfolded because in 30 years in this business I have seen projects hit dead ends.’
June 10, 2011
Ron Sylvester

News Literacy: What Not to Do

RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“Media Literacy: Learning Principles”– Renee HobbsThree instructional practices that are emerging in news literacy deserve closer scrutiny:Dumbing It Down: Some educators and news…
June 9, 2011
Renee Hobbs

Media Literacy: Learning Principles

Teachers in the Powerful Voices for Kids program helped students evaluate and create messages in a variety of media. Photo by Renee Hobbs.RELATED ARTICLES“Connecting Kids With News in Their Community”“…
June 9, 2011
Renee Hobbs

Feeling the Embrace of Her Nieman Family

D. Parvaz, freed in May after 19 days of captivity in Syria and then Iran, wrote a postscript to the accompanying essay, which she had written before her detention.RELATED ARTICLE“Landing…
June 9, 2011
D. Parvaz

Landing in Al Jazeera’s Vibrant Newsroom

‘… people show up on days off, come in early and leave late often without being asked, because not being in the newsroom when major stories break seems inconceivable.’
June 9, 2011
D. Parvaz

Living the Legacy of the Nieman Foundation

‘Helping to free Dorothy [Parvaz] and bring Hollman [Morris] to Harvard demonstrate the effective use of the Nieman bully pulpit.’
June 9, 2011
Bob Giles

Steve Weinberg: Connections and Disclosures

RELATED ARTICLE“The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists”-Steve WeinbergIn 1989, Little, Brown and Company published my biography of industrialist Armand Hammer, and then Hammer sued me for defamation, as we knew…
June 9, 2011
Steve Weinberg