...strong, local reporting—and devoting the resources necessary to do it—is so important to daily newspapers.

“Unique local content” is by now a familiar phrase as print competes with digital media for readers’ attention. With constantly updated international and national news reporting and commentary just a…

Lane DeGregory offers tips and describes some of the stories she’s written to reporters who work at community newspapers.

For those seeking to venture into the hyperlocal sphere—whether affiliated with a news organization or not—we’ve developed tips through observation and study. —J.S.1. Get ready for a high-touch experience: Citizen…

‘In communities with little news coverage, people are using the Web to restore a sense of place.’

‘Productivity, a central and venerable tenet of corporate culture, began to occupy the world of news in a way it previously had not.’

A new Nieman Web site will ‘aggregate important information about best practices in preserving and advancing journalism that adheres to its fundamental principles.’

‘… sometimes editors — and not just reporters — need to walk in the steps of the people they cover.’

In our Winter 2006 issue, Goodbye Gutenberg, journalists described the ways in which digital technology affects their work, and adjustments being made within newsrooms were front and center. What wasn’t…

It is these essential values that ‘make someone a good journalist, and they are what lift this work above the trivial.’