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

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

Trust needs to be continually earned. That’s a lesson newsrooms all over the world are learning, sometimes the hard way
Telling Young People about the Realities of War

Telling Young People about the Realities of War

Rania Abouzeid, a 2020 Nieman Fellow, on adapting her book on the Syrian Civil War for a young audience through “Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival…
Food Writing Needs to Balance Service Journalism with Hard News

Food Writing Needs to Balance Service Journalism with Hard News

Food journalism isn’t just for readers privileged enough to obsess over where to spend their money dining out
For Political Reporters, There Will Be No “Return to Normal”

For Political Reporters, There Will Be No “Return to Normal”

After the pandemic, America will be different. It will take all our skills – traditional and those we learned in the crisis – to cover the new reality
During Covid, Journalists Were Less Packaged. Let’s Keep It That Way

During Covid, Journalists Were Less Packaged. Let’s Keep It That Way

To ensure a healthier industry filled with healthier people, newsrooms must take the whole of the journalist into account in ways that weren’t always true pre-pandemic
Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

The pioneering journalist on covering Latinx communities, integrating BIPOC narratives into the mainstream, and covering immigration with depth and nuance
How Newsrooms, Journalists, and Their Peers Can Combat Online Violence

How Newsrooms, Journalists, and Their Peers Can Combat Online Violence

A culture shift is needed in the media industry to take online violence as seriously as physical violence
Emily Bell Says it's Time to Reframe How Journalists Report on Truth, Misinformation

Emily Bell Says it’s Time to Reframe How Journalists Report on Truth, Misinformation

A leading thinker and commentator on digital journalism, Emily Bell is the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Also the Leonard Tow Professor of…
A Nieman Lasts A Lifetime: A Member of The Class of ’67 Turns 95

A Nieman Lasts A Lifetime: A Member of The Class of ’67 Turns 95

Beena Sarwar, Nieman '05, reflects on the life and stories of her uncle, Zawwar Hasan, Nieman '67
Creating Media to Meet the Information Needs of Children

Creating Media to Meet the Information Needs of Children

Before the pandemic, I hoped to conduct a research project on the media consumption of kids ages 5 to 7, not knowing that soon a significant portion of their lives…