It’s a shame that headlines for straight-news stories about the stalled stimulus talks between Congress and the White House didn’t plainly say this before the issue was swamped by coverage…

“They say [the] Vietnam War was the first television war,” said BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. “Syria was the first social media war.”Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring,…

A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo

I used to be the king of the N-S-A:No.Strings.Attached.I was single. I had no children. And I was a renter.When the discount plane fare to Japan arrived in my inbox,…

Photojournalist Juan Arredondo, a 2019 Nieman Fellow, who covered race protests in New York City this summer:“This scene resonated with me because I thought, what a moment to be growing…

In a new Shorenstein Center report, “Conveying Truth: Independent Media in Putin’s Russia,” Ann Cooper, a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein fellow, describes the origins and evolution of independent media in Russia…

To meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice movement, the historically competitive media culture is becoming more collaborative

Nieman curator Howard Simons used to tease our class of ’77 about the number of members who abandoned journalism. Mel Goo became a lawyer; Dolly Katz, an epidemiologist. Al Larkin…

The reporters were used to getting stonewalled by the administration, but now the protesters demanding change were also shutting them out.One news organization, determined to tell the protesters’ stories, struck…

Shooting a glance at the uncanny paraphernalia on my desk feels like watching a “Breaking Bad” teaser: A fist-sized rock near my monitor, a half-burnt tear gas canister on the…