Journalist’s Trade

1984: Confidential Sources: Testing the Readers’ Confidence

[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…

1986: CIA Rarely Tells the Press What it Wants to Know

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

1958: Attribution of News

Memo to All Hands

What Happens When Journalists Envision a Web Site and Techies Try to Build It?

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

Is ‘New Media’ Really New?

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

Nursing Stories Journalists Fail to Cover

A nurse raises vital questions that reporters should be asking.

Can Anybody Find News Here?

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

The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health

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

Women Sportswriters Confront New Issues

No longer focused on locker room access, work and family challenges prevail.

Restricting a Photojournalist’s Access

The Red Sox tried to stop pictures of Fenway Park from being published.