Journalist’s Trade

How journalism schools are trying to connect classrooms to newsrooms

From the Olympics in Sochi, to protests in Kiev that ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to the movement of Russian troops in Crimea, Russia has been one of the…

Lea Thau explains the editorial and emotional processes behind live storytelling

Telling a story on the stage, not the page

In the fall of 2011, while researching a story on China’s business elites for The New York Times, I made a startling find: a set of corporate documents that linked…

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…

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

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…

How journalists can curate social media streams

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