Job creation is a key topic in the presidential election but so far it's been all sound bites and no substance. Dan Froomkin, a new contributing editor to Nieman Reports…

They died the same weekend, one 26, a prodigy of the Internet age who took his own life, the other an 89-year-old whose moral battles were waged on newsprint and…

Three Nieman Visiting Fellows undertake diverse short-term projects during 2013

Steve Northup, NF ’74, is a former staff photographer for United Press International, The Washington Post, and Time magazine. This photograph, taken in 1972, is currently on display at the…

How Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08, and his daily newspaper went off the map to rediscover their own country

1962Sebastiaan Kleu, a South African editor and economist, died of heart failure on October 11th. He was 85.Kleu began his career in journalism on the editorial board of the Afrikaans-language…

Dan Wakefield, NF ’64, edited and annotated the recently published “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.” Here he reflects on first meeting Vonnegut during his Nieman year and the impact the resulting friendship…

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, remembers Stanley Karnow, NF ’58

Dave McNeely, NF ’76, on the Emmy Award-winning Larry L. King, NF ’70, co-writer of the hit Broadway musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”

Yu Gao, deputy managing editor of Caixin Media and affiliate of 2013 Nieman Fellow Jin Deng, on how Chinese media censorship works