Nieman Notes

Azerbaijan’s presidential candidates debate on public television.Fortunately, the 5-hour flight from Heathrow was nearly empty, and I had three seats to get horizontal. I peered out the window and pictured…

In his new book, Anthony Lewis offers a ‘cogent, yet complete accounting of some of the most searing issues that have faced journalists over the past decade.’

‘The situation is insane.… My friends—both journalists—were killed in Ossetia. Just confirmed that..am devastated..’

In his new book, Anthony Lewis offers a ‘cogent, yet complete accounting of some of the most searing issues that have faced journalists over the past decade.’

View photos below »I had one chance to see Ansel Adams. In my senior year in college in 1976, I attended a media jobs fair at Howard University. I did…

‘There are far too many goodbye parties in newsrooms like The Boston Globe for employees like me who are taking buyouts …’

Two reporters encounter roadblocks in telling the flamboyant story of Bob Bullock.

A trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo results in a journalist’s determination to find ways to report on the devastation she now knows exists.

Two brothers photographed life in a working-class neighborhood and found ‘kinship and camaraderie.’

‘A good photograph to me is one that combines something of the past, the present, and the possible future.’