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Summer 2003: Watchdog Reporting Introduction

As part of the Nieman Foundation’s Watchdog Journalism Project, Nieman Reports is featuring two articles about watchdog reporting. In the first, Deborah Henley, executive editor of The (Delaware) News Journal,…
June 15, 2003

Summer 2003: Introduction

It’s always been a tug-of-war between secretive government officials and those whose job it is—the press—to hold them and their actions accountable. In peaceful times, no elected leaders, no appointed…
June 15, 2003

Summer 2003: Medical Reporting Introduction

“The chasm between medical journalists and physicians appears mostly to be one of ignorance rather than conflicting interests or malice,” writes Terry L. Schraeder, who for 10 years worked as…
June 15, 2003

Summer 2003: Words & Reflections Introduction

Is it possible for truth to exist in journalism? This question resides at the core of “The Press Effect: Politicians and the Stories That Shape the Political World,” a book…
June 15, 2003

Readers Question Editors’ Judgments About War Coverage

‘Where were these stories when, over the last year, Bush was building up his “case” for war?’
June 15, 2003

Newspaper Editors Confront Errors

‘We learn from one another’s mistakes.’
June 15, 2003

A Chasm of Distrust in Medical Reporting

A doctor who was a medical journalist tries to understand why journalists don’t trust their sources and sources don’t trust reporters.
June 15, 2003

‘Small Pieces Loosely Joined’

Part of the problem with AOL Time Warner’s failure to capitalize on the Internet might be a basic misperception of what kind of medium the Internet is. Like all the…
June 15, 2003

Media Companies and the Internet

We know there’s a problem, what’s the solution?
June 15, 2003

Challenging the Charge of Liberal Bias in the Media

An editor’s response: Understand our biases, act as journalists, be a watchdog of the powerful.
June 15, 2003