Articles

David Smith built a television empire on sensational, crime-saturated newscasts. Then he bought Maryland’s premier newspaper.

FM radio kept the NPR system resilient well into the digital age. Now the lifeline is fraying.

Harvard professor Archon Fung on the country’s political divisions and strategies for reaching across party lines.

A few weeks before the U.S. election, I traveled to Wisconsin, the crucial battleground state some 1,500 miles away from what’s been described as a place where evil runs rampant,…

Mexican women farmers harvest cempasúchil blooms each year, keeping cultural traditions alive despite inequity

Going behind the scenes with former Associated Press executive editor and Nieman visiting fellow, Sally Buzbee

The story of the Pullman porters is a gift that is still giving. The Black men who worked on George Pullman’s elegant sleeping cars for the century after the Civil War first…

For Sandrine Rigaud, NF ’25, a multicultural childhood opened a path to Forbidden Stories.

A new book about expat journalists in Brazil details Hunter S. Thompson’s early career.

A photographer chronicles Las Amazonas of Yaxunah, an Indigenous women’s softball team that’s challenging gender norms in rural Mexico.