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‘Start with a pretty straightforward question.’

‘…the Internet has helped put press freedom on the front burner.’

The author of ‘Electronic Tigers of Southeast Asia’ describes how media technology affects government and the press.

Alternative forms of communication forced mainstream media to do their job.

Many journalists confront intimidation and government control but for some more freedom brings awareness of the need for better investigative skills.

Journalism is on a fast-paced, transformative journey, its destination still unknown. That the Web and other media technologies are affecting mightily the practice of journalism is beyond dispute. Less clear…

David Fanning talks about finding the story in TV documentary.Learn the rules and the conventions of your craft so you can break them. That’s how you wing walk. That’s how…

On a late fall weekend in 2001, the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism convened its first conference. More than 800 journalists traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to take part in three…

McPhee’s New Yorker article, “Travels in Georgia,” is a joint profile of a man and a woman. McPhee is following them along through the state of Georgia, watching what they…

Adam Hochschild focused on the basics of writing narratives. Pick compelling characters and breathe life into them. Think in scenes, as if you were a filmmaker. Create suspense by strategically…