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Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Farai Chideya is a journalist whose career has encompassed academia as well as broadcast and print journalism. She has worked at news organizations including NPR, CNN, ABC News, FiveThirtyEight, and…
December 16, 2020
Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Here are Nieman Reports’ top 10 stories, in terms of pageviews, for the year: 10. How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”Published: March 21, 2020…
December 16, 2020

Beyond Superheroes Vs. Villains

As a kid I loved Superman. The undisputed good guy, he saved the world. Superhero and comic book movies often showcase easy-to-understand stakes, protagonists, and antagonists, making villains and heroes…
December 15, 2020
Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

As a media critic, author, and educator, Eric Deggans is one of the nation’s foremost commentators on matters relating to race and the media. NPR’s TV critic — the first…
December 14, 2020
What Journalists Can — and Can’t — Do about Media Distrust

What Journalists Can — and Can’t — Do about Media Distrust

There is a significant percentage of Americans who will always distrust us no matter how well our pieces are written, how compelling our broadcasts, how high the stack of documents…
December 9, 2020
A Picture of Hope in a Woman-Led Nation

A Picture of Hope in a Woman-Led Nation

Photojournalist Andrea Bruce, a 2016 Nieman Fellow: “This story for National Geographic magazine was about women gaining political power across the world. Here, in New Zealand, young Maori women stood alongside…
December 2, 2020
What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

Instead of being objective and neutral, be truthful, fair-minded, transparent, and human
December 1, 2020
How Journalists Beyond the U.S. Fight Back Against Government Intimidation

How Journalists Beyond the U.S. Fight Back Against Government Intimidation

A look at four countries — Belarus, Jordan, Thailand, and Nicaragua — where the mantle of “fake news” is used to intimidate and threaten, and how journalists are responding
November 24, 2020
“Change Cannot be Reduced to Storytelling, but Storytelling is Very Often at the Beginning of Change”

“Change Cannot be Reduced to Storytelling, but Storytelling is Very Often at the Beginning of Change”

At Germany’s The New Institute, Georg Diez, NF ‘17, hopes storytelling is the catalyst for societal change.What is the power, urgency, some would say duty of journalism in the face…
November 24, 2020
Amidst Political Turmoil in Belarus, a Revival of Trust in Independent Journalism

Amidst Political Turmoil in Belarus, a Revival of Trust in Independent Journalism

“Nearly everybody I know has been injured, beaten, detained, forced to flee, or has gone into hiding. It is personal. These are my friends. These are my fellow citizens,” says…
November 23, 2020