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“…Murrow had the sense of curiosity that all journalists have to have, a need to understand something before he talked about it, and a marvelous ear for copy.”—Friendly (left), with…

[This article originally appeared in the September 1971 issue of Nieman Reports.]…at no time in history has the world needed the professional journalist more.The strident, partisan voices of today’s society…

[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1980 issue of Nieman Reports.]Martin Chuzzlewit, the hero of Dickens’s novel of that name, sails to the United States on a packet boat.…

[This article originally appeared in the April 1952 issue of Nieman Reports.]Thomas Jefferson, in a famous letter to Edward Carrington, wrote his much-quoted line, “were it left to me to…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1955 issue of Nieman Reports.]…So revolutionary a change in the role of the American citizen was bound to have its effect on American…

[This article originally appeared in the March 1968 issue of Nieman Reports.]I would like to address my remarks to the younger journalists—those who will soon be leaving school. You will…

[This article originally appeared in the June 1970 issue of Nieman Reports].…One day when I was with the Washington bureau of The New York Times, our Supreme Court reporter, Anthony…

[This article originally appeared in the December 1970 issue of Nieman Reports.]…Those who would improve our practices in questionable ways come not only from the outside in the form of…

[This article originally appeared in the September 1971 issue of Nieman Reports.]Can white reporters accurately report events that involve blacks and other minority groups? This question—and the related topic of…

Portland (Maine) newspaper reframes the idea of objectivity to bring readers more forceful interpretive reporting.