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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…

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…