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Cameron McWhirter

@cammcwhirter

Cameron McWhirter, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of “Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America,” published in 2011 by Henry Holt and Company.

A History of the AR-15

A History of the AR-15

Cameron McWhirter, NF ’07, on the reporting behind the book “American Gun”  Zusha Elinson and I are reporters for The Wall Street Journal. He works out of San Francisco; I…
March 12, 2024
A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened

A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened

Our Nieman class, arriving in the fall of 2006, had a contingent of journalists who came to leafy, placid Cambridge from covering Iraq and Afghanistan.For them, the year was in…
April 7, 2014

Carl Sandburg’s Reporting Foretold the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

“Diversity fatigue has been alive and well in America's news industry for many years,” writes Milton Coleman, a senior editor at The Washington Post and an organizer of Leadership in…
September 13, 2011

Roi Ottley: An African-American Journalist Covers World War II

Old World War II movies usually included the standard cliché of a United States Army unit serving as a microcosm of American diversity. As the soldiers trudged along muddy roads…
September 7, 2011

Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age

A book-length exploration of digital media’s future fails ‘to address the core question: Where is the new public square?’
December 11, 2009

Foreign Correspondence: Old Practices Inform New Realities

‘Evelyn Waugh’s book can’t be read without thinking of today’s wars and how reporters cover them.’
September 15, 2007

Predicting Digital Media Challenges Is Not Difficult

A newspaper journalist reflects on a book in which many problems are proclaimed, but hard thinking about solutions remains elusive.
June 15, 2007