Articles

Questions for Journalists to Ponder in the Aftermath of Katrina

‘The first step is admitting that you don’t know what you don’t know.’

Rumors, Race and Class Collide

‘Class and race are inextricably bound up in New Orleans, and trying to make sense of it was as hard as trying to get accurate information.’

Words Triumph Over Images

‘The human element was accentuated, and the best of the writing was impressionistic.’

Nieman Fellowships in Global Health Reporting

Three fellows in the next three Nieman classes will focus their Harvard study—and four additional months of fieldwork—on health issues in the developing world.

Childhood Experiences Shape a Reporter’s Journey

‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’

Political Journalism: It’s Not the Good Old Days

‘But some of what ails American political journalism in our time is an overreaction to the failures of the boys back in Witcover’s heyday.’

The Role Women Journalists Played in Poland’s Freedom

Only when Solidarity won did the journalists realize ‘… they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.’

The Life and Times of Foreign Correspondents in Russia

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it.

Photojournalism Students Cover Hurricane Katrina in Their First Leap Into a Real-World Crisis

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’

Observing Those Who Observe

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’