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Memo to All Hands

[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]…I remember going over to the President’s house.… And he said, “You know it’s only three years—you’re the third…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1961 issue of Nieman Reports.]“Communications specialists” and working newspapermen sometimes glibly assert without a shred of proof that the American people are the…

From early in the magazine’s history, America’s dilemma—race relations and, in this case, how journalists report stories involving race—has been dissected and debated. Regarded initially in Nieman Reports from the…

It was not until 1952, 14 years after the Nieman Foundation was founded, that the first international Fellows arrived in Cambridge. They were from New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Since…

[This article originally appeared in the June 1968 issue of Nieman Reports.]When the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders blamed white racism for the destructive environment of the ghettos, most…

[This article originally appeared in the January 1956 issue of Nieman Reports.]Millions of words were written about the recent Till murder trial, but the most dramatic and, by far, the…

The American press was halfway through the century just ended before journalists began to talk seriously about press responsibility. A letter Henry Luce wrote to Robert Hutchins, President of the…

Savvy newspaper readers know to be on guard when information in stories is attributed to anonymous sources. But what if a news organization relies on an unidentified informant and withholds…

Reporters sometimes devote months, if not years, to working with sources, researching and compiling information to prepare it for publication. Though what their stories reveal can be explosive and damaging…