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Are Journalists the 21st Century’s Buggy Whip Makers?

Newspapers might vanish, too, if they continue to ‘dream of past dominance while taking their product and trying to fit it into their competitor's terrain.’

Gathering Voices to Share With a Worldwide Online Audience

‘Global Voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.’

Poet Donald Hall Inspires Nieman Fellows

‘… even under the tyranny of daily deadlines, journalists can help themselves by thinking like a poet.’

What’s Old Is New Again

A documentary film about immigration reveals historic articles and images with messages familiar to us today.

Learning How Data Work With Reporting

RELATED ARTICLE“Data Talk When Reporters Know How to Listen”– By Stephen K. DoigWorking with the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ (IRE) National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), I and USA Today…

Data Talk When Reporters Know How to Listen

‘My god, I had no idea newspapers could do this kind of thing!’

The War of Words

‘The acrimony of the immigration debate testifies to the power of words to divide and ought to serve as a cautionary signal to journalists …’

Well-Chosen Words Can Weave Tangled Webs

An increasingly important job of political journalists is to ‘unmask the tricksters.’

Preparing for the Journey

RELATED ARTICLESAlso by Sonia Nazario“Ethical Dilemmas in Telling Enrique’s Story”“On the Narrative Approach”“On Ways of the Road”In her talk, Nazario offered specific guidance to journalists about the…

On the Narrative Approach

I think it’s a couple of things in terms of the craft and being able to tell a story well. I’m a big believer in fly-on-the-wall stories and trying to…