Articles

Competing with Cyberspace: The Key is Reliability

The Virginia Press Association invited me to their annual meeting to talk about the future. Specifically, they wanted to talk about how newspapers compete in the world of cyberspace. The…

If Birds Were Reporters, What Would Their Eyes Reveal?

This image of Birkenau death camp taken in August 1944 shows prisoners lined up at gas chambers and other parts of the camp. Though photographed from an airplane, the image…

Spring 1999: Books Introduction

As foreign reporting struggles to find its foothold in the news that Americans watch, listen to and read, reporters write books about human tragedies they observe. They hope someone will…

Spring 1999: International Journalism Introduction

From Hong Kong—A report on the press after China’s returnFrom the United States—Reports on technological tools to help journalists track international stories from their office computersPeter Stein, Managing Editor of…

A Photographer Unites Generations With His Camera

Donny’s Girl Photos by Steven RubinThese photographs are from an ongoing project that I began 16 years ago, a visual chronicle of a town—West Athens, Maine—and its people. Returning there…

The Nieman Network Works in Wondrous Ways

Nearly four years have passed since my class toasted many farewells at the elegant Harvard Faculty Club. Our Curator, Bill Kovach, had the last word: “You are part of a…

Special Issue 1999: Introduction

This special issue of Nieman Reports has been created to report to the readers of Nieman Reports, to members of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and to newspaper and broadcast…

Letters

October 6, 1998New York CityTo the Editor:The question asked in your review [Fall 1998] of the Robert D. Richards’ book “Freedom’s Choice” about the right of the editor vs. that…

Locating the Citizens’ Pulse

If the 1998 elections represented the maturation of “public journalism,” then pre-election news coverage should have reflected more astutely the concerns and motivations of voters rather than the spin of…

Newspaper Management Keeps Quiet About Its Role in Apartheid

In the Afrikaans Press, Some Reporters Decide to Testify