Uncategorized Jailed for Seeking Justice Beatrice Mtetwa visiting her old elementary school. Image taken from the film “Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law”“You know this has to be done, somebody has to do it,… March 25, 2013 Lorie Conway Chinua Achebe: Unstoppable, Unbeatable Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of “Things Fall Apart,” died on March 11. Photo by Craig Ruddle/The Associated PressThe story of Africa and the insight many have into her traditions… March 22, 2013 Sunday Dare The Story Behind ‘Playing With Fire’ In April 2011, Chicago Tribune reporter Patricia Callahan sat in a California Senate hearing, listening in rapt attention as burn surgeon David Heimbach described in excruciating detail how a seven-week-old… March 15, 2013 Jonathan Seitz Values and Voting Systems In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama stated that, in the Middle East, the United States "will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights and… March 5, 2013 Souad Mekhennet Mastering Disruptive Innovation PROGRAM UPDATE: Please note that the Nieman seminar with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen planned for Wednesday, Dec. 5, has been postponed. We will reschedule the event and… December 4, 2012 Precision Journalism and Narrative Journalism: Toward a Unified Field Theory This is the adapted text of the Hedy Lamarr Lecture Meyer delivered at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on October 3. The lecture was also sponsored by Medienhaus Wien, a… October 18, 2012 Philip Meyer The Jobs Crisis Photo by Arthur Rothstein. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To the extent that there has been any attention paid to public policy issues amid all the mud-slinging in the… August 27, 2012 Dan Froomkin Complete Audio List A collection of all audio excerpts from the Winter 2009 issue on a single page, in the order they in which they appear in the magazine. August 7, 2012 Wangari Maathai—A Reporter’s Remembrance Wangari Maathai holds her Nobel Peace Prize and certificate in 2004. Maathai, a Kenyan ecologist, was the first African woman and the first environmentalist to have won the coveted prize.… October 11, 2011 Gwen Thompkins Common Ground—Nieman Reports, Our Conference The articles in this issue spotlight the challenges independent and investigative reporters and editors confront as they hold those in power accountable. October 4, 2011 Brant Houston Previous 1 … 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 … 34 Next
