Books

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

Robert Giles, former curator of the Nieman Foundation, was managing editor of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal on May 4, 1970 when four students were killed at Kent State University…
“We all need to be investigative critics”

“We all need to be investigative critics”

Journalist Jim DeRogatis has been on the R. Kelly story for about two decades. In 2000, after he published allegations that the R&B superstar had sexually abused girls, Kelly’s career…
Breaking the silence about corruption in Spain’s press

Breaking the silence about corruption in Spain’s press

After 18 years as a war reporter and correspondent, David Jiménez was appointed editor-in-chief of El Mundo, one of Spain’s biggest dailies, at the end of his Nieman fellowship at…
Agents for Good: How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

Agents for Good: How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

Nicholas Diakopoulos, director of Northwestern University’s Computational Journalism Lab, is optimistic about the role algorithms can play in the media, but he acknowledges that ensuring their ethical use will require…
China and the AI Edge

China and the AI Edge

 In “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,” published March 5 by PublicAffairs, Amy Webb examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving in…
Photography is "a language that didn't need translation"

Photography is “a language that didn’t need translation”

In his book “Shooting War” (Glitterati Editions), psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein profiles 18 conflict photographers, providing insights not only into their work, but their psyches. Feinstein’s essays, drafted from his  interviews with the…
How Hashtag Culture Influences International Conversations

How Hashtag Culture Influences International Conversations

Published by Beacon Press on January 8, An Xiao Mina’s “Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power” explores internet memes as agents of global…
Google, Facebook, and the Crisis of News and Democracy

Google, Facebook, and the Crisis of News and Democracy

This excerpt from “Internet är Trasigt: Silicon Valley och Demokratins Kris” (“The Internet is Broken: Silicon Valley and the Crisis of Democracy”) has been translated from Swedish. Published October 8 by Natur…
Hot Type

Hot Type

It once seemed to take a million moving parts to put out a newspaper—a real, printed-on-paper edition of, say, The New York Times, the Herald Tribune or Le Monde.It was…
The End of the Ad World as We Knew It

The End of the Ad World as We Knew It

While covering the media business for The New Yorker for more than 25 years, Ken Auletta has profiled many of the most important leaders of the Information Age and reported…