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The Bill of Rights, as this parchment copy is now known, is on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1981 issue of Nieman Reports.] I’ve been asked to say something about Walter Lippmann. There would be no Niemans without him; I don’t…

[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…