Investigative reporters in Sweden set out to tell the story of why and how illegal fishing of cod was happening—and what it meant to consumers and businesses in their country.

From tutoring to volunteer firefighting to working with at-risk children, fellows use their skills to dig into their surroundings.

Working for a Western magazine in Iran, a journalist finds that he has acquired some surprisingly close acquaintances—from the ministry of intelligence. And strangely, they are all called Mr. Mohammadi.

‘Those of us who have been investigative reporters have a responsibility to ensure that local watchdogging remains robust in our industry.’

September 2001 – First Iranian blog appears on the Internet.November 2001 – Blogger Hossein Derakhshan develops a step-by-step guide to blogging in Farsi.RELATED ARTICLE“Attempting to Silence Iran’s ‘Weblogistan’”– Mohamed Abdel…

‘Today’s generation of Iranian women reporters are doing big things. Their mark will be left on history.’

‘When we work in countries without press freedoms, we scarcely know the pressures on the people we encounter, the complexities of their motivations, the dimensions of their fears.’

‘… investigative reporters are a hardy breed who will tenaciously uphold their watchdog mission in bad times as well as good.’

An exhibit of photographs of Iran featuring the work of Iason Athanasiadis, a 2008 Nieman Fellow, opened for a three-month show in January at the Craft and Folk Art Museum…

“Beyond the Moment: Irish Photojournalism in Our Time” is the title of a fine slab of a book recently published by the Press Photographers Association of Ireland. This is Ireland…