[This article originally appeared in the July 1947 issue of Nieman Reports.] How Is Press To Be Criticized? Walter Lippmann, Column March 27 — The problem is a specially important form of the question: … Read more
What you [see] here is a collection which reflects the substance of the first 53 years of the conversation journalists have engaged in about their rights and responsibilities in the pages of Nieman Reports. At times you will find an article that opened a new argument or ended an old one. Throughout you will hear the voices of journalists committed to their work challenging colleagues to raise the standards of discovering, reporting, writing and editing the news in a context meaningful for navigation within a free society. – Bill Kovach Read more
[This article originally appeared in the July 1954 issue of Nieman Reports.] Fiction writers have used a broad and inaccurate pen in painting the modern country editor as a grey-haired, old man wearing a green eyeshade, black muslin elastic-banded arm … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.] Cartoon courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.…only the man who has learned historical depth can give what we call the … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the July 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.] I propose to speak tonight on a moderately pretentious topic, the public responsibilities of newspapermen and lawyers.… As my concern is public responsibility in our professions, I want … Read more
A.J. Liebling. Photo courtesy of UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. [This article originally appeared in the March 1963 issue of Nieman Reports.] It is a time-honored custom for the out-of-town speaker to tell you … Read more
[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of Nieman Reports.] [T]here is far too little public understanding in the United States about the role of the press in the American system. And one good reason for that is … Read more
