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Spring 2003: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

As New England bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Mehren reports for West Coast readers on the region’s newsworthy events. In her story opening our series of articles…
March 15, 2003

Spring 2003: Introduction

Few topics receive more media attention today than the topic of health. Yet, in the view of some journalists, many of the stories being told about health are not ones…
March 15, 2003

The Uninsured Story Is Seldom Fully Told

Reporters rely on experts instead of going out where the story is happening.
March 15, 2003

‘News to Images’

Painter Melora Kuhn first saw a photograph of Canada’s Dionne quintuplets in The Boston Globe in 1998 in an article about their success suing their government because of the separation…
March 15, 2003

Reporting on the Business of Health Care

‘… this beat is a rich, exciting and suspenseful journey.’
March 15, 2003

Reporting Stories With Children as Victims of Priests

For journalists in Boston, ‘this crazy locomotive’ of a story has been unceasing and, at times, wrenching to cover.
March 15, 2003

Courageous Zimbabwean Editor Becomes a Nieman Fellow

‘Like a recurring nightmare, Nyarota became a frequent occupant of Harare’s police cells.’
March 15, 2003

Journalists Built a Bridge of Understanding Between East and West

During the cold war, Soviet and American editors learned from one another.
March 15, 2003

Creating a Different Approach to Telling the News

An American journalism professor teaches students about free speech in authoritarian Uzbekistan.
March 15, 2003

Consequences Occur When Reporters Testify

A reporter urges journalists to be better watchdogs of the war crimes tribunal process.
March 15, 2003