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Documenting Lebanon After the 2006 War: ‘Deserted Riviera’

Filmmakers decide that, to illuminate the complexities and subtleties of Lebanon's politico-religious tapestry, they had to claim the audience's attention through engaging characters and fast-paced visual units.

Shifting Influence: From Institution to Individual

‘Inheriting the old order was not an option for my generation of journalists.‘

Young Reporters, New Tools, and Political Reporting

At MTV, the 51 members of Street Team ’08 are experimenting with format, content and distribution as they find stories to tell to a youthful audience.

Adding Radio and Video Web Casts to Political News in Print

‘… am I becoming the first correspondent in my paper’s history who has no time to think?’

Only the Reader Sleeps

As political coverage meets the insatiable Web, ‘Reporters and editors have less and less time and more and more responsibilities to file, and to keep filing.’

Using Documentary Film to Deeply Explore Issues

‘It seemed to me solid news reporting could no longer do its job.’

Terrorism and Prisoners: Stories That Should Be Told

‘… stories about how we might balance security and civil liberties began slipping deeper inside major newspapers.’

Creating an Investigative Narrative

On the second morning of the Nieman Foundation's three-day 2008 Conference on Narrative Journalism, Anne Hull, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, and Dana Priest, who investigated and wrote The Washington Post's…

Visual Testimony About War

All photos by Peter van Agtmael.For the past two and a half years, I have covered war and its consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the United States. As an…

Probing the High Suicide Rate Among Soldiers in Iraq

In pushing for the military to release undisclosed data, reporters found soldiers who battled mental illness and took their own lives during the war.