Nieman Reports

Cover Story

Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color

By Tara Pixley• Diversity in Journalism• May 15, 2017

A tall man—handgun tucked in his waistband and face wrapped in a shirt leaving only his eyes visible—stares at the journalists staring at him. He is looting a Ferguson, Missouri gas station during protests of Michael Brown’s shooting by police. Read more

Images that Offer Fresh Takes on Minority Communities

Diversity in Journalism• May 15, 2017

Related Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color By Tara Pixley The best visual journalism displays the human condition as honestly and thoroughly as possible. Read more

Features

Can News Literacy Be Taught?

By John Dyer• Features• April 14, 2017

In the run-up to last year’s presidential election, Kennady Wade found herself challenging her peers on the dubious stories they posted on social media, like links to obscure conservative blogs that claimed Hillary Clinton was a money-laundering devotee of the late … Read more

Flagging Fake News

By Eryn Carlson• Features• April 14, 2017

With reporting by Tamar Wilner The Trust Project Based at California’s Santa Clara University, The Trust Project is led by journalist Sally Lehrman, who conceived the effort with Google News executive Richard Gingras in 2014. Their idea: to develop digital tools and strategies to … Read more

Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

By Eryn Carlson and Maggie Koerth-Baker• Features• May 3, 2017

On October 11, 2011, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Donna Jane Watts clocked a car driving down the Florida turnpike at 120 miles per hour, well over the zone’s 70 mph speed limit. She tried to pull the car over, and … Read more

Rethinking the White House Beat

By Debra Adams Simmons• Features• April 25, 2017

Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, reporters on one of 2016’s most important news stories, the Panama Papers, recently issued a challenge in an essay published in The Guardian to their American colleagues covering President Donald Trump: … Read more

Storyboard

The making of binge-worthy serial narratives, from “S-Town” to “Framed”

By Ricki Morell• From Nieman Reports• April 4, 2017

When Colin McNulty was developing a podcast about Oprah Winfrey, the producer for WBEZ Chicago found inspiration in an unlikely place: “House of Cards,” the Netflix series about a scheming Washington politician who eventually becomes president of the United States. Read more

Spring 2017

A New Focus

Cover Story

Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color

Images that Offer Fresh Takes on Minority Communities

Features

Can News Literacy Be Taught?

Flagging Fake News

Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

Rethinking the White House Beat

Storyboard

The making of binge-worthy serial narratives, from “S-Town” to “Framed”

From the Curator

The Sting of the Lie

By Ann Marie Lipinski

Live@Lippmann

S. Mitra Kalita: “‘They don’t know, they don’t show’—those words [from ‘Boyz n the Hood’] just penetrated me. … Those words have been the refrain of my career”

Niemans@Work

Border Patrol: Panama Papers veteran Wahyu Dhyatmika, NF ’15, finds a way forward with another cross-border investigative story

By Wahyu Dhyatmika

A Winning Turnaround: Betsy O’Donovan, NF ’13, is leading the charge to reverse the deficit at a college newspaper

By Betsy O'Donovan

Sound Business: Mary Meehan, NF ’16, masters the art of storytelling on radio after a long career in print

By Mary Meehan

Books

How News Flows on Social Media

By Zeynep Tufekci

Sounding

The Power in Sports

By J. Brady McCollough

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