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Lukashenko’s Hijacking of the Free Press in Belarus

Lukashenko’s Hijacking of the Free Press in Belarus

The audacity of the Belarusian diversion of an international flight in order to arrest a dissident journalist rightly drew global headlines and global condemnation this week. But it’s not exactly…
May 25, 2021
Ann Cooper
For Visual Journalists, The Pandemic Was Creative Inspiration to Try Harder

For Visual Journalists, The Pandemic Was Creative Inspiration to Try Harder

The pandemic brought out the very best in my teammates.I’m the director of photo/video at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Throughout my 22 years at the paper, I’ve observed plenty…
May 24, 2021
Deb Pastner
Adam Toledo, Bodycam Footage, and Coverage of Police Shootings

Adam Toledo, Bodycam Footage, and Coverage of Police Shootings

I started the video at about 5:01 and just let it play, as part of my Exploring Fake News journalism class at Davidson College this past semester.The video was captured…
May 20, 2021
Issac J. Bailey
Serving the Audiences Mainstream Newsrooms Don’t

Serving the Audiences Mainstream Newsrooms Don’t

In March, when a man shot and killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, across three different spas in the Atlanta area, one thing quickly became clear: the…
May 19, 2021
Clio Chang
Holding On to Hope that News Coverage Leads to Change

Holding On to Hope that News Coverage Leads to Change

Jasmine Brown, a 2020 Nieman Fellow and a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, on maintaining her faith in journalism through the struggles of the past year.One of my primary beliefs as…
May 12, 2021
Jasmine Brown
The Newsroom Is Dead. Long Live the Newsroom!

The Newsroom Is Dead. Long Live the Newsroom!

I asked a friend the other day if he was eager to get back to the newsroom we once shared. The publisher has indicated that the doors will reopen as…
May 10, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
Empowering Incarcerated People to Tell Their Own Stories

Empowering Incarcerated People to Tell Their Own Stories

Shaheen Pasha, a 2018 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on starting the Prison Journalism Project and training incarcerated writers to tell stories about their prison community.The first thing I noticed was…
May 6, 2021
Shaheen Pasha
Keeping the Abolitionist Press Alive in Pre-Civil War America

Keeping the Abolitionist Press Alive in Pre-Civil War America

“First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery” by Ken EllingwoodIn his newly released monograph,”First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the…
May 4, 2021
Ken Ellingwood
The Old Normal Is Not the Normal Journalism Needs

The Old Normal Is Not the Normal Journalism Needs

George Floyd was alive the last time my newsroom was open.Think about that.So were a half million Americans and three-plus million citizens of the world, now lost to the plague…
May 4, 2021
John Archibald
What Newsrooms Can Learn About Trust from Coverage of the AstraZeneca Vaccine

What Newsrooms Can Learn About Trust from Coverage of the AstraZeneca Vaccine

On March 12, 2021, La Repubblica, Italy’s most widely circulated and trusted newspaper, placed a chilling headline on its front page: “AstraZeneca, Fear across Europe.”Some reports linked the vaccine developed by…
April 30, 2021
Mattia Ferraresi