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Melissa Ludtke

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Melissa Ludtke was editor of Nieman Reports from 1998 to 2011.

Winter 2000: Developing a Global Interactive Dialogue Introduction

By using new technological devices to disassemble millions of computerized records, Chicago Tribune project reporter Mike Berens unearthed patterns of fatal nursing errors and transformed statistics into investigative stories. Brant…
December 15, 2000

Winter 2000: Peering Into the Digital Future Introduction

Our journey into the digital future begins with an essay by Tom Regan, associate editor of The Christian Science Monitor’s Web site. His advice: Remember that technology is changing journalism,…
December 15, 2000

Winter 2000: Building New Homes for News Introduction

At The Providence Journal, online editor Andrea Panciera writes that all sorts of barriers between the online and print staffs must be broken down so that “the editorial voice that…
December 15, 2000

Winter 2000: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

Richard Wexler, a former reporter and journalism professor, now executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, contends that journalists’ usual coverage of child welfare revolves around a…
December 15, 2000

Winter 2000: International Journalism Introduction

John Maxwell Hamilton, a veteran correspondent and now dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, recently traveled to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to…
December 15, 2000

Fall 2000: Narrative Journalism Introduction

Mark Kramer, who directs a narrative journalism conference each year at Boston University, opens our series of articles by asserting that “narrative writing is returning to newspapers.” The reasons are…
September 15, 2000

Fall 2000: Photojournalism Introduction

James Nachtwey’s book “Inferno” is a collection of 382 photographs depicting the horrific brutality and suffering of people who are entrapped by war, famine or political unrest. Its publication offers…
September 15, 2000

Fall 2000: Words & Reflections Introduction

The death penalty is under the journalistic microscope. Scrutiny of prosecutions and court procedures, along with new testing of DNA evidence, is illuminating ways in which the legal system—from the…
September 15, 2000

Fall 2000: International Journalism Introduction

Africa is the focus of this issue’s international journalism section. It is a continent too often ignored by Western media and a place where in too many countries those who…
September 15, 2000

Summer 2000: Journalist’s Trade Introduction

 As the century began, political reporters flocked to the front porch of the Canton, Ohio home of President William McKinley to dispatch his words to readers. Now, 100 years later,…
June 15, 2000