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When Ben Smith joined BuzzFeed as editor in chief in 2012, the site was better known for cute cat videos and fun lists than for serious journalism. Over the past…

Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she was the paper’s first female White House correspondent.…

Watch video of Jane Mayer’s presentation at the Nieman Foundation’s 75th Anniversary celebration Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The…

Erik Martin, the general manager of online community platform Reddit.com, spoke at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on October 9, 2013. During the discussion, moderated by Nieman Journalism…

Photo by John MinchelloAs executive editor of The Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll oversees a staff of some 2,300 journalists working in more than 100 countries. The news they gather is…

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Documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris on how we are all error-generating machines

ProPublica’s Stephen Engelberg on what makes his year and the perils of philanthropy

Buzz Bissinger on ambition, fear of failure, and the genesis of ‘Friday Night Lights’

Ann Curry, a “Today” co-anchor, talked about some of the foreign stories she has reported that have mattered most to her. Photo by Lisa Abitbol.“Why do we do it?”Ann Curry…