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Journalism’s Reckoning with “Manipulation at a Mass Scale”

Journalism’s Reckoning with “Manipulation at a Mass Scale”

I traveled once to Tripoli to interview Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Colleagues and I met him in a Bedouin tent under a full moon on the grounds of Bab al-Azizya,…
December 17, 2020
Ann Marie Lipinski
Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Farai Chideya on white nationalists, intelligent questions, and the media’s failure to cover racial resentment
December 16, 2020
Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Here are Nieman Reports’ top 10 stories, in terms of pageviews, for the year: 10. How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”Published: March 21, 2020…
December 16, 2020

Beyond Superheroes Vs. Villains

As a kid I loved Superman. The undisputed good guy, he saved the world. Superhero and comic book movies often showcase easy-to-understand stakes, protagonists, and antagonists, making villains and heroes…
December 15, 2020
Austin Bogues
Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

As a media critic, author, and educator, Eric Deggans is one of the nation’s foremost commentators on matters relating to race and the media. NPR’s TV critic — the first…
December 14, 2020
What Journalists Can — and Can’t — Do about Media Distrust

What Journalists Can — and Can’t — Do about Media Distrust

Acknowledging the limits of journalists’ ability to affect media trust levels can prevent a repeat of the mistakes made covering Trump
December 9, 2020
Issac J. Bailey
A Picture of Hope in a Woman-Led Nation

A Picture of Hope in a Woman-Led Nation

Photojournalist Andrea Bruce, a 2016 Nieman Fellow: “This story for National Geographic magazine was about women gaining political power across the world. Here, in New Zealand, young Maori women stood alongside…
December 2, 2020
Andrea Bruce
What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

Instead of being objective and neutral, be truthful, fair-minded, transparent, and human
December 1, 2020
Mary Louise Schumacher
How Journalists Beyond the U.S. Fight Back Against Government Intimidation

How Journalists Beyond the U.S. Fight Back Against Government Intimidation

A look at four countries — Belarus, Jordan, Thailand, and Nicaragua — where the mantle of “fake news” is used to intimidate and threaten, and how journalists are responding
November 24, 2020
Madeleine Schwartz
“Change Cannot be Reduced to Storytelling, but Storytelling is Very Often at the Beginning of Change”

“Change Cannot be Reduced to Storytelling, but Storytelling is Very Often at the Beginning of Change”

At Germany’s The New Institute, Georg Diez, NF ‘17, hopes storytelling is the catalyst for societal change.What is the power, urgency, some would say duty of journalism in the face…
November 24, 2020
Georg Diez