Books

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…

The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico (Video Interview)

Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, recently sat down at Lippmann House to discuss his year as a fellow and his new book, “Midnight in Mexico.”An…

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…

Putting the Pieces Together: An E-Book Memoir of a Bus Accident in Israel

To be walking about a college campus with a knapsack on my back at age 39 was a great gift. It was all the greater for having had my first…

Can’t Live with ’em, Can’t Live without ’em

How big telecoms firms put a chokehold on America’s communication pipelines—and what should be done about it

Tricks of the Trade

Undercover reporting fell out of favor in the 1970s but is it worth another look?