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German publishers are hitting the headlines all over the world with their fight against Google. The Economist has described Germany’s attitude as “Googlephobia” and The New York Times recently compared…

In his 1975 lecture, “The Journalist, a Chronicler of His Time,” Alejo Carpentier, a writer and journalist himself, made a distinction between the perspectives and roles of these two professions…

Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, has reason to be nervous. That’s partly because of his personality—detailed in “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace…

“Some people won’t like reading this,” warned Carlos Alberto Pérez, author of the blog “The Kite of Cuba,” in one of his entries published on May 15, 2014. The post…

Do today’s news media, legacy or digital, have what it takes to explore the underlying sources of racial conflict like the recent troubles in Ferguson, Missouri? There is plenty of…

For its first 40 years, the Nieman Foundation was something of a nomad. It had been created in 1938 through money left to Harvard by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow…

Named editor of Politico last week, Susan Glasser spoke by phone with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson about the challenges faced by women in leadership roles. A…

Some months ago, The Economist ran a column about business schools. The tagline was: “Business schools are better at analyzing disruptive innovation than at dealing with it.”Sounds familiar, I thought.…

Chinese journalist Liu Binyan joined the Nieman Class of 1989 at age 62, after he became a target of the Chinese government’s campaign against “bourgeois liberalism.” Binyan was a writer…

In the first three decades in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the journalists called their newspapers “loudspeakers” and “bulletin boards” of the Communist Party and the government.…