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In the end, the Nieman year is always about people.The people who share that magical title of “fellow,” and those whom we meet along the route of our nine-month carriage…

Imaging Education: the Media and Schools in AmericaEdited by Gene I. MaeroffTeachers College Press. 240 Pages. $50 hc, $23.95 pb.In the winter 1997 edition of Nieman Reports, I issued the…

In a year when journalism is running wild on the Internet and the transgressions of the press have made headlines, e.g. CNN’s nerve gas broadcast, the fabricated stories in The…

Right-Wing Exile Foundation in Florida Uses Defamation Suits to Chill Criticism of Its Policies

RELATED ARTICLE“SLAPPing Down the Debate Over Cuba”– John S. Nichols and Robert D. RichardsThe idea that knowledge can come to you only through a sort of pictorial electronic representation itself…

The Philippine press is considered by many the liveliest, the most confrontational and even the wildest in Asia. Get out of it for a year, as I did in 1987…

“I think a strong argument can be made that the residents of [poorer] areas are severely disadvantaged—as citizens, as workers, as consumers—by the lack of serious coverage from television and…

Imaging Education: the Media and Schools in AmericaEdited by Gene I. MaeroffTeachers College Press. 240 Pages. $50 hc, $23.95 pb.In the winter 1997 edition of Nieman Reports, I issued the…

After years of self-satisfied isolation, Indonesia finds itself exposed on the world’s financial pages and, occasionally, on front pages. The last time journalists paid so much attention to this immense,…

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of DemocracyStephen L. CarterBasic Books. 338 Pages. $25.America is suffering from a lapse in civility, and the trouble is, according to Stephen Carter, we…