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1991: Investigators’ Checklist

Every campaign adds another important item—what will it be this time?

1996: Feasting on the Seed Corn

Media critic says that newspaper executives cutting into news coverage are risking the future for short-term gains.

1986: Standards and Principles

The market for mediocrity has diminished the incentive for excellence.

1983: Press Performance: Enough Is Too Little

Encouraging words on a new and healthyphenomenon—the press is taking a hard look inward and examining itself.

1989: Has Money Corrupted Washington Journalism?

Money, money, money makes the world go ’round—but what does it do to journalists?

1986: The Us-First Syndrome

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of Nieman Reports.]For whom do reporters write? For the readers?Well, yes and no.After two years inside a daily newspaper, I have…

1999: Using Education Data to Build a Story’s Foundation

Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald.[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]For at least a…

Winter 1999 – Spring 2000: Electronic Media Introduction

From the 1940’s through the 1990’s, technological innovation in electronic media has tugged print journalism into unaccustomed realms of news reporting. During earlier decades, this tug came most strongly from…

1999: The Role of Reporters’ Judgment

Here are excerpts from the Watchdog Journalism Conference, May 15, 1999, at Harvard University.

1999: Reporting Stories in Russia That No One Will Publish

Those who own and control the media want to secure political influence, not uncover political corruption.