Nieman Notes

An Affair of the Heart

Metro station, Cité, 1981.ParisiansAbbeville Press. 167 Pages. $50.Photographs by Peter Turnley Forwards by Adam Gopnik, Robert Doisneau, and Edouard BoubatWhen I arrived in Paris 26 years ago, at the age…
March 15, 2001
Peter Turnley

From Carbon Copies to E-Mail

In 45 years, the way journalists send words has changed.
December 15, 2000
Richard Dudman

A Photojournalist Portrays a Changing Community

As residents begin to trust officers, the fight against drugs picks up momentum. Lebonah Israel ponders her future after she asked Sgt. Frank Dean to drive her to drug rehabilitation,…
December 15, 2000
Nuri Vallbona

Howard Simons’ Legacy Lives On

Scholarships for minority journalism students bear his name.
September 15, 2000
Marcia Slacum Greene

Reading Between the Lions

We had just finished up work on a film tracking a homeless couple over five years of their remarkable and disturbing lives. The resulting documentary won a bucketful of awards…
September 15, 2000
Judith Stoia

Endnote

Bill Kovach received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University March 9, 2000. Here are excerpts from his…
June 15, 2000
Bill Kovach

An Urban Eye Looks at Rural Life

Photographs that ‘beguile without fantasizing.’
September 15, 1999
Frank Van Riper

At Unity ’99 the Topic Was Journalism

The conference offered a glimpse of what newsrooms could be.
September 15, 1999
Sam Fulwood III

Using the Camera to Peer Inside

When I went to Cuba in January 1998 to photograph Pope John Paul II’s historic visit, I was seeing a familiar subject—I’d been there with my camera for his visits…
June 15, 1999
Beatriz Terrazas

Finding Stories of Common Concerns

Connecting foreign reporting to domestic audiences
June 15, 1999
Susan E. Reed