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How journalism schools are trying to connect classrooms to newsrooms

At the Nieman Foundation’s 75th anniversary reunion, Robert A. Caro discussed the art of political biography with fellow Nieman Anne Hull

For the cover of the new issue of Nieman Reports, we wanted to say something intriguing about the state of journalism in China. Many of the stories in the cover…

“The State of Journalism in China” looks at how journalists in China work around the Communist Party’s efforts to rein in free speech. International reporters often face surveillance and harassment…

How Hispanic media have moved out of niche markets and into the mainstream

Fiction instructor Anne Bernays and nonfiction instructor Paige Williams, NF ’97, recall how the Nieman writing courses got started in 1945 and 1998Signing on to teach crack journalists how to…

Ruth Daniloff, a ’74 Nieman affiliate, on the dawn of equal rights for affiliates When I heard in May of 1973 that my husband, Nicholas Daniloff, had won a Nieman…

James Geary, NF ’12, editor of Nieman Reports, on the magazine’s founding Nieman Reports, from the first issue to the most recent Nieman Reports, from the first issue to the…

In an interview published in the 1986 book, “Archibald MacLeish: Reflections,” the Foundation’s first curator described the origins of the regular Nieman dinners, which eventually evolved into seminars and, ultimately,…

Writing in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports, Louis M. Lyons, NF ’39, explained the weekly seminar series added during his Nieman yearThe dinner guests [curator Archibald] MacLeish coaxed…