[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]“The Money Shot” is a story about the male porn industry in Los Angeles and the suicide of…

In my 11 years at The Namibian, Namibia’s largest daily newspaper, we have never published an investigative story that was more widely read than one earlier this year about a…

As cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune for a dozen years, I was sometimes called upon to write the big, epic think pieces that necessarily follow in the wake of…

Indonesia’s transition since 1998 from the Suharto military dictatorship to democracy has presented journalists with many challenges. Indonesia’s Press Council estimates the country now has 43,000 news organizations from fewer…

Nieman Fellows reflect on the journalism that left an indelible mark on them

Associated Press correspondent Ruth Cowan fought generals and editors to become one of the first women credentialed to cover World War II

What Walter Lippmann’s early writings say about some of journalism’s most urgent contemporary challenges

It would be no surprise to be told that young Walter Lippmann conquered Harvard, conquered its challenges with his intelligence, ambition and wide-ranging curiosity. That one would expect. But he…

For decades, news organizations have talked about the importance of diversity. Now it’s time to make it work

We are amid another shallow media debate, this time triggered by the New Yorker’s decision to first invite, then disinvite Steve Bannon from The New Yorker Festival.Very Serious and Very…