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Making the switch from full-time journalist to tenured professor is more challenging—and rewarding—than one might think.

‘I knew we’d get a backlash for our reporting, which was far more aggressive than most small-town papers are willing to stomach. But the news media’s role as watchdog is…

2010 has been a violent year for journalists in Mexico in terms of murders and attacks.RELATED ARTICLE“The Mexican Press: At the Crossroads of Violence”– Elia Baltazar andDaniela PastranaA report by…

In her introduction to a book about investigative journalism in China, Ying Chan traces the progress and setbacks of news reporting under Communist rule, a history that has actually seen…

On January 5, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported on the annual meeting of the media propaganda ministers. A few weeks later, China Media Project editor David Bandurski wrote on…

RELATED ARTICLE“An Idea Born Out of Necessity—And It Works!”– Henrik KaufholzThe Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which now attracts more than 500 journalists from more than 50 countries, has been…

Germany’s Duke of Brunswick was an overweight, autocratic paranoiac who was kicked out of his fiefdom by a peasant uprising.RELATED ARTICLE“Libel Laws Pose Obstacles to Ukraine’s Investigative Journalists”– Vlad LavrovA…

An index of organizations featured in this issue of Nieman Reports.

‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’

‘The next wave of journalistic progress will channel its power from the underlying principle of the reporter’s beat …’