Journalist’s Trade

Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings

From left, David Beard, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Seth Mnookin, speaking at the Nieman Foundation on May 1. Photo by Jonathan Seitz“One of the things that’s happening with Twitter is the…

Social Media and the Boston Bombings

Nieman Visiting Fellow Hong Qu analyzes the role social media played in breaking the news of the Boston Marathon attack

“The Story of a Lifetime”

Brian McGrory, 51, was named editor of The Boston Globe just four months before the Boston Marathon bombings captured the world’s attention. Ten days into that coverage, McGrory spoke with…

Curation Is the Key to Bringing Social Media and Journalism Together

How journalists can curate social media streams
Organize the Noise: Tweeting Live from the Boston Manhunt

Organize the Noise: Tweeting Live from the Boston Manhunt

A reporter and a programmer on what social media coverage of the Boston bombings means for journalism

Minimize Description, Maximize Observation

Pulitzer-winner Blair Kamin schools Harvard students in the art of architecture criticism

Concision and Clarity: The Video Interview

Rock criticism was not a profession, much less an art, when Robert Christgau returned to New York after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1962, at the age of 20. The…

Concision and Clarity: The Extended Transcript

Brett Anderson: We’re here with Robert Christgau, the dean of American rock critics.Robert Christgau: Got it right.Brett: …who has been writing about popular music professionally for closing in on 50 years.…

Finding a Way Forward

Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation provides a framework to understand how businesses grow, become successful, and falter as nimble start-ups muscle in on their…

Breaking News (En Español)

Cómo dominar el arte de la disrupción en el Periodismo