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Political and social realities can be discovered in serious criticism of the medium.

Administration’s manipulation of news embraced diplomacy and politics, as well as the battlefield.

Photo by Keith Greene, News & Observer, courtesy of The News & Observer.[This article originally appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of Nieman Reports.]The best environmental story I ever worked…

Photographers line airport road to photograph one of the funerals of a Westside Middle School shooting victim. Nettleton cemetery is located across the street. Photo by Bill Templeton/The Jonesboro Sun.[This…

Every campaign adds another important item—what will it be this time?

Media critic says that newspaper executives cutting into news coverage are risking the future for short-term gains.

The market for mediocrity has diminished the incentive for excellence.

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…