Journalist’s Trade

But don’t expect journalists to give second tier candidates equal attention.

Candidates transform themselves into entertainers.

In California, not all was as it had appeared.

Jack Germond remembers the different old days.

After 40 years on the beat, one journalist thinks they might be.

As many candidates retreat from the press, what we learn is what their strategists want us to know.

A Century of Reporting on the Race for the White House

Nothing about journalism so engages—and enrages—the public and practitioners as do discussions about whether reporters can be and are objective observers of events they describe. Innumerable studies have set out…

The Bill of Rights, as this parchment copy is now known, is on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.

[This article originally appeared in the September 1971 issue of Nieman Reports.]…at no time in history has the world needed the professional journalist more.The strident, partisan voices of today’s society…