Opinion

‘… press analysts who back up their judgments with reporting, research, style and wit’ earn praise, but it’s advocacy groups from both sides of the political spectrum who receive much…

To the Editor:The review published in the Fall 2009 issue of Nieman Reports of “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America,” by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr…

To the Editor:I’m writing to set the record straight and correct some troubling misperceptions created by Jerry Kammer’s article, “An Opposing Viewpoint: The Struggle to Be Heard,” printed in the…

A book-length exploration of digital media’s future fails ‘to address the core question: Where is the new public square?’

‘Our experience with print-on-demand books offers promising and challenging news.’

An extended, online-only version of Reed Richardson's essay, "The Newsroom's Disdain for Revealing Reporter's Political Leanings"

A journalist argues that maintaining ‘the veneer of political impartiality devalues reporting and marginalizes the press’s fundamental role in our democracy.’

RELATED ARTICLE“Blogs, Tweets, Social Media, and the News Business”– Robert G. PicardIn May, Robert Picard wrote a piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled “Why journalists deserve low pay.” The…

‘… objectivity does not require that journalists be blank slates free of bias. In fact, objectivity is necessary precisely because they are biased.’

George Weller was a highly praised novelist who was fluent in a number of languages when the Chicago Daily News sent him overseas in 1940 at age 33 to cover…