From the Curator Loathing on the Campaign Trail Once again, the media discover that there’s no substitute for talking to voters March 23, 2016 Ann Marie Lipinski What Nicki Minaj Can Teach Newsrooms About Credibility One profile brings to light many issues challenging journalism, including diversity, authenticity, and cross-generational competence January 12, 2016 Ann Marie Lipinski Risky, Important Conversations About Diversity in Our Newsrooms When it comes to issues of race and reporting, soul-searching by journalists is imperative June 10, 2015 Ann Marie Lipinski Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate Is it possible to place stories on some universal scale of import and assign coverage and empathy accordingly? March 24, 2015 Ann Marie Lipinski Honoring Anja Niedringhaus by Supporting Future Visual Journalists Nieman is creating a fellowship in honor of photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, a member of the class of 2007, who died bearing witness so that we may see December 12, 2014 Ann Marie Lipinski Ensuring Women Have A Seat at the Leadership Table The lunch for the summer interns was held at the editor’s swanky men’s club. The other interns and I had arrived ahead of the brass and I took my seat… September 11, 2014 Ann Marie Lipinski Missing the Story Even from a country generating waves of extreme news—accounts of Africa’s highest GDP alongside stories of terrorism—the reports of the schoolhouse kidnappings were shocking. About 300 Nigerian schoolgirls had been… July 16, 2014 Ann Marie Lipinski Season of Dreams Winter is Nieman’s season of dreams. The applications pour in from elite newsrooms and single-person startups, from G8 nations and nearly invisible economies. Most of the international files arrive electronically,… January 29, 2014 Ann Marie Lipinski Signal vs. Noise in Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings One tweeter boasted of a "game-changing victory" for crowdsourcing in the early hours of the Boston area manhunt. But what began as a low-grade fever on social media spiked with… June 10, 2013 Ann Marie Lipinski Ghosts Speaking Across the Page They died the same weekend, one 26, a prodigy of the Internet age who took his own life, the other an 89-year-old whose moral battles were waged on newsprint and… March 12, 2013 Ann Marie Lipinski Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next