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Encouraging words on a new and healthyphenomenon—the press is taking a hard look inward and examining itself.

Money, money, money makes the world go ’round—but what does it do to journalists?

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of Nieman Reports.]For whom do reporters write? For the readers?Well, yes and no.After two years inside a daily newspaper, I have…

Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald.[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]For at least a…

From the 1940’s through the 1990’s, technological innovation in electronic media has tugged print journalism into unaccustomed realms of news reporting. During earlier decades, this tug came most strongly from…

Here are excerpts from the Watchdog Journalism Conference, May 15, 1999, at Harvard University.

Those who own and control the media want to secure political influence, not uncover political corruption.

[This article originally appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]What happens when reporters are shut out by sources whom they believe are necessary to report a story? Several…

[This article originally appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog Journalism Conference [May 15, 1999 at Harvard University]…

The Fiction of Janet Cooke and the Pulitzer Prize Surprise