Articles

War in the Balkans is forcing correspondents to rewrite their guidelines.

Cash handouts to publishers, editors and reporters determine what newspapers print.

Nieman Fellow 1976

Is the Western press listening to its colleagues in Third World countries?

[This article originally appeared in the March 1972 issue of Nieman Reports.]God knows we are not perfect as professionals. To be honest, after eight years of covering the Vietnam War,…

[This article originally appeared in the March 1964 issue of Nieman Reports.]The resident American press corps during my time in New Delhi (1961-1963) was comparatively small—the two wire services, the…

By not tapping into rap’s message of violence media failed to prepare public for rampage.

The managerial ranks of newspapers are a purer white than Ivory Snow.

A school library in Farmville, Virginia. From plaintiffs’ exhibits—photographs filed in Dorothy E. Davis, et al. versus County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Civil Action No. 1333. Photo…

[This article originally appeared in the April 1962 issue of Nieman Reports.]In “Absolom, Absolom!,” one of William Faulkner’s great Gothic novels of Yoknapatawpha county, Quinten Compson goes to Harvard and…