Journalist’s Trade

Barriers to reporting on corruption are numerous. Pushing past them can be risky, especially in countries where powerful interests are entrenched in business, media organizations, and government. Arrest. Legal action.…

Source: Right2info.orgAristotle insisted that "by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to…

‘I knew we’d get a backlash for our reporting, which was far more aggressive than most small-town papers are willing to stomach. But the news media’s role as watchdog is…

2010 has been a violent year for journalists in Mexico in terms of murders and attacks.RELATED ARTICLE“The Mexican Press: At the Crossroads of Violence”– Elia Baltazar andDaniela PastranaA report by…

RELATED ARTICLE“An Idea Born Out of Necessity—And It Works!”– Henrik KaufholzThe Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which now attracts more than 500 journalists from more than 50 countries, has been…

An index of organizations featured in this issue of Nieman Reports.

‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’

‘The next wave of journalistic progress will channel its power from the underlying principle of the reporter’s beat …’

Beats form the backbone of a newsroom, so what happens when resources shrink, new voices emerge and platforms multiply? Which topics stick around? What new beats emerge? As Twitter cranks…

As newsroom staffs shrink and eyeballs measure interest, women’s sports coverage is losing ground it once seemed to be gaining.