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[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of Nieman Reports.]For whom do reporters write? For the readers?Well, yes and no.After two years inside a daily newspaper, I have…

Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald.[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]For at least a…

How a Senator Can Monopolize the Loudspeaker

[This article originally appeared in the March 1966 issue of Nieman Reports.]I was in Greenville when the age of electronic journalism first came creeping in, and I have always thought…

The head of the Venezuelan delegation to the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City receives a message from a colleague. Photo courtesy of The Associated Press. [This article…

President Calvin Coolidge in cowboy outfit with press photographers. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.  [This article originally appeared in the September 1964 issue of Nieman Reports.]The press conference…

[This article originally appeared in the October 1959 issue of Nieman Reports.]I do not think that I need to tell you that standing on this famous platform I feel awkward…

[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]…I remember going over to the President’s house.… And he said, “You know it’s only three years—you’re the third…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1961 issue of Nieman Reports.]“Communications specialists” and working newspapermen sometimes glibly assert without a shred of proof that the American people are the…

From early in the magazine’s history, America’s dilemma—race relations and, in this case, how journalists report stories involving race—has been dissected and debated. Regarded initially in Nieman Reports from the…