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[July 1960] – 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…

Other Cubans “wanted to reassure me about the strength of their religious belief despite their government’s claim to the contrary.”—Beatriz Terrazas, a l999 Nieman Fellow and staff photographer for The…

Widow of Muslim man killed in Banja Luka is comforted. Photo courtesy of Michele McDonald. [This article originally appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of Nieman Reports.]These photos were taken…

A sensitive photographer deals with the difficult assignments.

[This article originally appeared in the Autumn 1974 issue of Nieman Reports.]The media—and in particular newspapers—are taken to task by Edwin Newman in the October [1974] issue of The Atlantic…

The national media are no longer just observers and messengers, but are now lead actors in government.

“It is my judgment that Mr. Johnson wants to hold control in his own hands.”—Strout. Photo by Jack Kightlinger, courtesy of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library Collection. [This article originally…

“Television by its nature has to move on…it cannot explain or expound.”—Muggeridge. Civil rights march on Washington, D.C., 1963. Photo courtesy of the Still Picture Branch, National Archives at College…

[This article originally appeared in the October 1951 issue of Nieman Reports.]The challenge of television to the newspaper is one which newspapermen cannot take lightly, and one which you must…

[This article originally appeared in the January 1949 issue of Nieman Reports.]“I never expected to see an old hand in the newspaper business cavorting in front of a bunch of…