‘The first step is admitting that you don’t know what you don’t know.’

‘Class and race are inextricably bound up in New Orleans, and trying to make sense of it was as hard as trying to get accurate information.’

‘The human element was accentuated, and the best of the writing was impressionistic.’

Three fellows in the next three Nieman classes will focus their Harvard study—and four additional months of fieldwork—on health issues in the developing world.

‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’

‘But some of what ails American political journalism in our time is an overreaction to the failures of the boys back in Witcover’s heyday.’

Only when Solidarity won did the journalists realize ‘… they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.’

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it.

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’