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I’m deeply troubled in America that the chasm between those who have wealth and those who don’t is getting wider and wider. There are more people who are the have-nots…

Poverty is clearly something of our own doing, but the non-poor are no longer moved to take concerted action to alleviate it. This is not because they think the solution…

Athens, GeorgiaTo the Editor:Undoubtedly under severe space constraints, my good friend Phil Meyer and his co-author, M. David Arant, plucked a six-word quote from my book to lead their fine…

Angola, IndianaTo the Editor:It was refreshing to read Morton Mintz’s article, “The ACLU and the Tobacco Companies” [Nieman Reports Spring 1998]. Such an exposé is long overdue, and I applaud…

As this issue of Nieman Reports goes to press, Sirius, the Dog Star, rises with the sun. We are in the midst of dog days, and the suspicions of the…

Alabanians show reports of beatings by Serbs in Kosovo.These photos were taken in August, 1993 in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo for The Boston Globe. Reporter Sally Jacobs and I were…

© David Turnley/Black Star, “In Times of War & Peace,” 1996RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– David TurnleyIn his introduction to “In Times Of War And Peace,” a book…

A Life-Long Strategy for Learning Photojournalism

In editing our documentaries, the picture leads. Writing the narration is literally the last thing I do. That doesn’t mean I don’t have concrete ideas about the story, especially since…

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times.What is “People Without People?” For me it is the sense of people without them being there. It’s the part representing the whole. It’s the significant detail…