From the Curator

Risky, Important Conversations About Diversity in Our Newsrooms

Risky, Important Conversations About Diversity in Our Newsrooms

Where Are the Women?”—last year’s cover story on the decline of women in senior journalism roles—did not lack for sources. Women were overwhelmingly willing to talk candidly about their careers…
Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate

Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate

The Facebook posting was striking, coming from a friend who writes powerfully about race and was now arguing against the University of Oklahoma’s expulsion of fraternity members for their racist…
Honoring Anja Niedringhaus by Supporting Future Visual Journalists

Honoring Anja Niedringhaus by Supporting Future Visual Journalists

For those who care about foreign reporting, the news about the news isn’t good. Reporters kidnapped, beheaded, disappeared. The Committee to Protect Journalists documents the toll with a grim menu…

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…
Missing the Story

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…
Season of Dreams

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Rising to the Challenge

Journalism is an escape artist.For the generation raised on Watergate, that lesson landed hard. The most powerful men in the world could not shut a story down. They lied and…