[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1984 issue of Nieman Reports.]Researchers from The University of Iowa journalism school conducted a study in 1982 for the American Society of Newspaper…

It only reluctantly tells Congress some of what it wants to know.

[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1983 issue of Nieman Reports.]…[E]ven at this stage [following a conference reassessing reporting from China] some facts, insights and themes emerge that can…

Sources’ visceral fear gives way to ironic wariness, although security agents seem ever present.

[This article originally appeared in the September 1964 issue of Nieman Reports.] The press conference as an organized biweekly meeting was instituted by Woodrow Wilson, fell into disrepair under Harding,…

[This article originally appeared in the October 1959 issue of Nieman Reports.]I do not think that I need to tell you that standing on this famous platform I feel awkward…

Memo to All Hands

[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]…I remember going over to the President’s house.… And he said, “You know it’s only three years—you’re the third…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1961 issue of Nieman Reports.]“Communications specialists” and working newspapermen sometimes glibly assert without a shred of proof that the American people are the…

From early in the magazine’s history, America’s dilemma—race relations and, in this case, how journalists report stories involving race—has been dissected and debated. Regarded initially in Nieman Reports from the…