Books

For Online Publications, Data Is News

Data-driven projects and news-based games should be presented as journalism, not frilly add-ons
Remembering Alice Dunnigan, a Pioneering Black Journalist

Remembering Alice Dunnigan, a Pioneering Black Journalist

In the 1950s, she was the first reporter at presidential press conferences to question Dwight D. Eisenhower about civil rights issues
What's the Difference Between Activism and Journalism?

What’s the Difference Between Activism and Journalism?

As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech?
Like Father, Like Daughter

Like Father, Like Daughter

Second-generation reporter Allison Steele reflects on the Inquirer newsroom, now and then
Looking Up

Looking Up

To accompany an excerpt from Will Steacy’s “Deadline,” Nieman Reports asked longtime Philadelphia Inquirer staffer Dan Biddle, a 1990 Nieman Fellow, to summarize the paper’s recent history and its current…
In Praise of Digital

In Praise of Digital

Since its publication in 2001, “The Elements of Journalism” has been the industry-standard text on the ethics and practice of journalism. In this edited excerpt from the third edition, published…
A Native of Nowhere

A Native of Nowhere

Nathaniel Nakasa left Harvard in the spring of 1965 ambivalent about his experience as a Nieman Fellow. According to his biographer Ryan Brown, he found studying race as an academic…

Starting Arguments: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Political Cartoonist on the Right to be Offensive

All illustrations by Mark FioreJust great. My first foray into book reviewing is reviewing a book by Victor Navasky, former editor and publisher of The Nation, onetime editor at The…

Grave New World: Evgeny Morozov’s Dire Warnings on the Reach of Google and Facebook

Photo by Paul Sakuma/The Associated Press To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological SolutionismBy Evgeny MorozovPublicAffairs415 pages Evgeny Morozov has a knack for connecting seemingly unrelated technological advances…

The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico

Alfredo Corchado, who has covered Mexico for the Dallas Morning News since 1994, was interviewed at Lippmann House. Video from the interview is available. What was it like coming to…