Articles

Animation and the Political Cartoon

These cartoons ‘can reach inside someone’s brain and grab just the right spot.’
December 15, 2004
Mark Fiore

Understanding the Value of the Local Connection

‘… my cartoons provide another opportunity to carry on a conversation with the people who live here.’
December 15, 2004
Scott Stantis

Journalism Reflects Our Culture

Journalism is no more in a survival mode today than it was 52 years ago when Louis Lyons and my Nieman classmates worried about how a compliant and objective press…
December 15, 2004
Melvin Mencher

The Inadequacy of Objectivity as a Touchstone

Certainly journalism will survive. Indeed, it could even thrive as a result of today’s very real challenges. Journalists need neither fear nor denounce the proliferation of punditry and attitude. Rather,…
December 15, 2004
Geneva Overholser

Where the Girls Aren’t

Why editorial cartooning is still a boy’s sport.
December 15, 2004
Signe Wilkinson

The Red, White and Blue Palette

What happens when cartoonists let fear and pressure soften their vigilant voices?
December 15, 2004
Ann Telnaes

Pressures Force the Emergence of a New Journalism

Journalism often appears to thrill to the sense of being in crisis, but pressures on it now truly seem to fit the bill. On one side, it’s screwed down tighter…
December 15, 2004
Edward Wasserman

Tips About FOIA Filings

FOIA for the FOIA logs. Not only do they contain clues to stories, but also reporters will discover fascinating/ entertaining requests. One CIA log, for example, showed a requester had…
September 15, 2004
Rob Walters

Journalists Act to Combat Government Secrecy

Today journalists are observing a growing culture of secrecy in Washington and the use of “national security” to justify restricted access and sometimes complete closure throughout all areas of government.…
September 15, 2004
Pete Weitzel

The Steady March of Government Secrecy

Journalists strategize to gain access to information the public has a right to know.
September 15, 2004
Pete Weitzel