This past year has been characterized by threats to democracy — and to journalism. Though many election-denying Republican candidates were defeated in the 2022 mid-term elections, former president and current…

Our most read stories of 2022 tackle some of journalism’s most pressing issues: women and their struggles for equality in newsrooms, reframing the way we cover politics, and examining the…

Over the past year, Nieman Reports has sat down with a number of people who are propelling journalism forward. From editors leading new initiatives in their newsrooms to experts strategizing…

At the end of December 2020, freelance journalists Matteo Garavoglia and Youssef Hassan Holgado spent a month-and-a-half traveling across Tunisia to report on the 10th anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution,…

The stoicism that reporters once mustered when covering tragedies is giving way to a new public candor

Open Vallejo by Geoffrey King It started with a disturbing tip: Police officers in Vallejo, California, were bending the points of their badges to mark each on-duty killing.  There had…

How journalists are organizing to defeat strategic lawsuits against public participation, which powerful individuals use to silence independent reporting

Deborah Douglas and Susanna Siegel on re-defining objectivity, advocacy journalism, and newsroom power dynamics

What would you do if the target of your investigation threatened you with a lawsuit? What if it came from a direction you weren’t expecting: A government official you’ve been…

Since the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk went through in late October, the social media platform has seen a lot of change. Within Musk’s first week on…