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Behold This Cliché: The Truth Shall Set You Free

Cases unheard. Justice denied. These words fit many crimes committed with racial intent a half century ago. Now reporters burrow into forgotten files, locate witnesses, track down suspects, publish what…
A Photographer’s Journey:  From Newspapers to Social Media

A Photographer’s Journey: From Newspapers to Social Media

In this photo essay from the Fall 2009 issue of Nieman Reports, Philadelphia photojournalist Jim MacMillan discusses how social media helped his post-newspaper career.

Remembering James H. McCartney

Rick Smith, a longtime friend of James H. McCartney, NF ’64, delivered this eulogy at a memorial service in early June at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.When I…

Western Media Training: Challenging James Miller’s View

Michael J. Jordan, a Slovakia-based foreign correspondent who has extensive experience teaching journalism overseas, has written a letter to the editor in rebuttal to James Miller’s “Questioning the Western Approach…

Statement by Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge

Your Highness, Mr Director-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of my late husband and fellow journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, I wish to thank you most sincerely for this great…

Investigative Reporting Project Checklist

Here is my 10-point checklist for enterprise projects—stories that I choose to do. There are some stories that are so important or timely that a checklist is irrelevant or misguided.…

Resources for Investigative Reporters

If you know of other sources, or if you would like your website to be considered, please contact us at nreditor@harvard.edu.Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Article 19Brazilian Investigative Journalism AssociationBBC…

Russia: Corruption Isn’t Only a Threat to the System—It Is the System

Russia has surpassed Pakistan and Zimbabwe in corruption levels, according to Transparency International’s 2010 report. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s administration says that in just one year corrupt government contracts drained…

An American Observes a Vietnamese Approach to Newsgathering

Editor’s Note:We have made the decision to remove from our online publication “An American Observes a Vietnamese Approach to Newsgathering” based on a number of concerns raised both within VietNamNet…

International Reporting Resources

For those interested in learning more about visual journalism, we have compiled a list of sources that cover the field.