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Frank Van Riper

RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– Frank Van RiperIn combining my talents as both a writer and photographer I am doing something unusual and, I think, important in the…

Stanley Forman

I was on vacation from my job at WCVB-TV Boston in September 1986 and had spent the early evening playing cards. At 11:30 I quit to pick up a friend…

Steve Northup

These pictures were made in November of l972, about the time Nixon was getting re-elected. The Indians, marching as part of the American Indian Movement, went to Washington and simply…

Stan Grossfeld

RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– Stan GrossfeldIt’s a familiar refrain: kids having kids. There’s an unexpected twist here, however. Christina and Allan “are white kids in a nice…

‘Secret’ Behind TV Station’s Photos

By getting down to eye level, a KUSA photographer gives a sense of the action and the emotions of wheelchair athletes.Denver’s KUSA-TV has been named Television News Photography Station of…

Get the Picture

A Personal History of Photojournalism

Tobacco and the American Civil Liberties Union

ACLU’s Charges New York To the Editor: Morton Mintz’s latest diatribe against the ACLU only serves to degrade and debase the standards of your magazine, whose stated purpose is “to…

Indians Left Out

Rapid City, South DakotaTo the Editor:I read with interest your “Watchdog” articles in Nieman Reports. I was a little disappointed Indians were excluded. Dealing day in and day out with…

The Daily Work of the Media

After listening to a day and a half of debate and discussion about the role of watchdog journalism, I am more convinced than ever that this genre of aggressive reporting…

Progress by Washington Post Copyeditors: 1997

Readers are not sleeping through August, but they sometimes ask if copy editors are:“I want to register dismay about the errors in the July 30 lead story [on the budget…