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The Quickening Pace of Change

In March 2005, David Stoeffler, then vice president of news for Lee Enterprises, issued a challenge to the company’s newspaper editors: Give me ideas that will revolutionize your paper.RELATED ARTICLE“Inviting…

Vanishing Jobs at Newspapers

RELATED ARTICLE“Are Journalists the 21st Century’s Buggy Whip Makers?”– William DietrichEmployment news at newspapers is bad, but just how bad depends on who’s counting. Between 1992 and 2002, the number…

The Global Voices Manifesto

We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak—and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech.To that end, we seek to…

Letter to the Editor

Editor’s Note: Nieman Reports relies on journalists who write for our pages to provide an accurate account of events and experiences they share with our readers. Though we work to…

Puzzling Contradictions of China’s Internet Journalism

A journalist who has worked in China says that ‘the Internet has strengthened the power of the central government, not undermined it.’

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…