Books

In "Demagogue," his biography of Joe McCarthy, Larry Tye reveals journalist Drew Pearson’s role in taking on and bringing down the infamous senator from Wisconsin

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…

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…

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…

How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…