Do you want to be ready for a startup in your newsroom, for new research methods, immersive storytelling, and product thinking? Then open doors for people with different skill sets. Invite coders, statisticians, bio-engineers, designers and {INSERT YOUR WILDCARD DISCIPLINE … Read more
On January 15, 2019, five armed men attacked a luxury hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, blasting their way through with grenades and firing indiscriminately. By the time the siege was over about 20 hours later, … Read more
The television cameras were all packed away and stuffed into the trunks of the rental cars. Notebooks were crammed into briefcases and alongside the cameras, packed in rental cars headed for Rapid City. New York Times journalist Bill Kovach, … Read more
After 18 years as a war reporter and correspondent, David Jiménez was appointed editor-in-chief of El Mundo, one of Spain’s biggest dailies, at the end of his Nieman fellowship at Harvard in 2015. What seemed like an exciting challenge soon … Read more
Libraries and news organizations are increasingly collaborating to better serve their communities, with librarians teaming up with journalists to promote media literacy and tackle misinformation, develop community journalists, spur civic engagement, and take on reporting projects. Read more
In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show. Michael Sullivan is de facto publisher and editor in chief as well as reporter, … Read more
I can’t imagine standing in the middle of a Walmart and having a fellow customer repeatedly calling me racial epithets as the manager silently watches from a corner of the store, politely refusing to intervene, for ill-defined reasons. It would … Read more
One of the biggest goals for the U.S. journalism industry in covering the 2020 election is to not repeat its mistakes from the 2016 election. So what steps are journalists taking to fulfill that? The industry of 2019 is different … Read more
Anna Fifield, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, started thinking about writing a book about North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, after she returned to the region as The Washington Post’s Tokyo bureau chief, covering Japan and the Koreas, following her Nieman … Read more
Nicholas Diakopoulos, director of Northwestern University’s Computational Journalism Lab, is optimistic about the role algorithms can play in the media, but he acknowledges that ensuring their ethical use will require vigilance. Bots with nefarious aims make a lot … Read more
