Journalist’s Trade

[This article originally appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog Journalism Conference [May 15, 1999 at Harvard University]…

The Fiction of Janet Cooke and the Pulitzer Prize Surprise

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1984 issue of Nieman Reports.]Researchers from The University of Iowa journalism school conducted a study in 1982 for the American Society of Newspaper…

It only reluctantly tells Congress some of what it wants to know.

Memo to All Hands

Generations clash. Cultures collide. And promises cannot be kept.

For news agency reporters, technology changes but not how the job is done.

A nurse raises vital questions that reporters should be asking.

In Hyannis Port, nobody could. But ‘news’ was delivered, anyway.

Nurses’ experience and research is vital to, but absent from, these stories.