On the second morning of the Nieman Foundation's three-day 2008 Conference on Narrative Journalism, Anne Hull, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, and Dana Priest, who investigated and wrote The Washington Post's…

All photos by Peter van Agtmael.For the past two and a half years, I have covered war and its consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the United States. As an…

In pushing for the military to release undisclosed data, reporters found soldiers who battled mental illness and took their own lives during the war.

‘… it became clear that the editorial board could advocate for changes by presenting the facts in a fresh, in-depth way and by speaking with scientific-based authority.’

‘There are far too many goodbye parties in newsrooms like The Boston Globe for employees like me who are taking buyouts …’

‘Most notable was the story line in which Latino voters were described in ways that made them seem monolithic.’

‘In online reporting, news breaks and context is often added later.’

‘… some of the worst features of campaign reporting emanate from the kinds of psychological defenses that reporters erect to deal with their insecurities.’

The media are constantly on the lookout for the odd moment that might capture some revealing truth about a candidate — and, ideally, create a feeding frenzy that consumes the…

‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’