Articles

Using Documentaries to Move People to Action

Films serve as powerful catalysts for the Television Race Initiative.
September 15, 2001
Ellen Schneider

Long-Form Documentaries Serve a Vital Journalistic Role

Today’s complexities don’t fit into tidy news magazine packages.
September 15, 2001
Robert Richter

Documenting Social Ills With an Eye Toward Advocacy

Women’s health, homophobia, domestic violence, and rape are topics mainstream media often ignore.
September 15, 2001
Margaret Lazarus

News is Strategic in the Newspaper Business

Newsroom cost cutting should not imperil its special strengths.
September 15, 2001
Joseph Bower

Radio Diarists Document Their Lives

These ‘reporters’ capture moments journalists never could.
September 15, 2001
Joe Richman

Radio Documentaries Take Listeners Into Dark Corners

David Isay is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions. Its radio documentaries profile the lives of men, women and children living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. During the past…
September 15, 2001
David Isay

Making Change Work Away From Public Pressures

At Cox newspapers, economic hard times bring fresh approaches to news coverage.
September 15, 2001
Jay Smith

Nieman Fellows Take to the Road in Korea

‘For 10 days we changed from being reporters to being diplomats of our profession.’
September 15, 2001
Stefanie Friedhoff

A Tape Recorder Becomes a Connecting Thread

Joshua Cutler. Photo by Kate Burton.I went to a small high school where everyone had some vague notion that I had a disease called Tourette’s syndrome. But very few students…
September 15, 2001
Joshua Cutler

When the Cheering Stops and Anger Sets In

At the St. Paul Pioneer Press, beats will disappear and photos won’t be taken.
September 15, 2001
Chuck Laszewski