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“They say [the] Vietnam War was the first television war,” said BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. “Syria was the first social media war.”Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring,…

A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo

I used to be the king of the N-S-A:No.Strings.Attached.I was single. I had no children. And I was a renter.When the discount plane fare to Japan arrived in my inbox,…

Photojournalist Juan Arredondo, a 2019 Nieman Fellow, who covered race protests in New York City this summer:“This scene resonated with me because I thought, what a moment to be growing…

In a new Shorenstein Center report, “Conveying Truth: Independent Media in Putin’s Russia,” Ann Cooper, a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein fellow, describes the origins and evolution of independent media in Russia…

To meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice movement, the historically competitive media culture is becoming more collaborative

Nieman curator Howard Simons used to tease our class of ’77 about the number of members who abandoned journalism. Mel Goo became a lawyer; Dolly Katz, an epidemiologist. Al Larkin…

The reporters were used to getting stonewalled by the administration, but now the protesters demanding change were also shutting them out.One news organization, determined to tell the protesters’ stories, struck…

“Turkey’s mainstream media has imploded, and it will not come back even after Erdoğan”

I began writing this piece with trepidation, wondering if it would be fair to compare the president of the United States of America to a president in SyFy’s cult classic…