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[This article originally appeared in the September 1971 issue of Nieman Reports.]…To the office secretary, the Xerox machine is the greatest invention since the coffee break. In an instant, carbon…

[This article originally appeared in the January 1959 issue of Nieman Reports.] For literature, said Max Beerbohm, he felt reverence, but for journalism merely a kind regard. A natural remark…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1947 issue of Nieman Reports.] How Is Press To Be Criticized? Walter Lippmann, ColumnMarch 27 — The problem is a specially important form…

What you [see] here is a collection which reflects the substance of the first 53 years of the conversation journalists have engaged in about their rights and responsibilities in the…

Nieman Fellows answer the question.

Only a Responsible Press Can Stay Free, Hutchins Commission Finds

[This article originally appeared in the July 1954 issue of Nieman Reports.]Fiction writers have used a broad and inaccurate pen in painting the modern country editor as a grey-haired, old…

[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]Cartoon courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.…only the man who has learned historical depth can give what we…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]I propose to speak tonight on a moderately pretentious topic, the public responsibilities of newspapermen and lawyers.…As my concern…

A.J. Liebling. Photo courtesy of UPI/Corbis-Bettmann.[This article originally appeared in the March 1963 issue of Nieman Reports.]It is a time-honored custom for the out-of-town speaker to tell you what’s wrong…