Nieman Reports
Summer 2003
Medical Reporting

“The chasm between medical journalists and physicians appears mostly to be one of ignorance rather than conflicting interests or malice,” writes Terry L. Schraeder, who for 10 years worked as a medical journalist before entering medical school. Now doing her residency in internal medicine, she uses these experiences to highlight the problems between journalists and doctors and ways to close the widening gap of distrust. She is convinced that only when they “understand the other’s professional training, education, deadlines, responsibilities, codes of ethics, and internal stresses” will the chasm narrow. – Melissa Ludtke, Editor
Download PDFMedical Reporting
Journalist’s Trade: Coverage of War
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Summer 2003: Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke
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Blurring the Line Between Journalist and Publicist
By Paul McMasters
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What Should News Organizations Do for Access?
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What Happens When Journalists Don’t Probe?
By Murrey Marder
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Are Journalists Asking the Right Questions?
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Covering the War Before It Started
By Michael Getler
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Examining Press Coverage of the War
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Readers Question Editors’ Judgments About War Coverage
By Michael Getler
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The Press and Freedom
By Bob Edwards
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Presidential Secrecy and Reporters’ Efforts to Breach It
By Sam Donaldson
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In War, Journalists Become Part of the Problem
By Chris Hedges
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The Safety of Journalists Who Cover Wars
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Embedding Reporters on the Frontline
By Nancy Bernhard
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The View From Inside the Military
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Blogging the War Away
By Danny Schechter
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Using a Weblog to Track War Coverage
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Getting a More Complete War Story
By Rami G. Khouri
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The Arab Press
By Rami G. Khouri
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Televised War Coverage in Namibia
By Gwen Lister
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Deciding What Images to Show
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Keeping an Eye on Thailand’s Press
By Songpol Kaopatumtip
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Receiving Very Different News
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War Coverage in the Chinese Media
By Yuan Feng
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German Skepticism About America’s Intent and Goals in Iraq
By Martin Gehlen
Watchdog Reporting
Words & Reflections
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Summer 2003: Words & Reflections Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke
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What Stands Between the Press and the Truth?
By Seth Effron
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Challenging the Charge of Liberal Bias in the Media
By Michael Riley
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Media Companies and the Internet
By David DeJean
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‘Small Pieces Loosely Joined’
By David DeJean
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Forty Years of Reporting the Nation’s News
By Bill Wheatley
Curator’s Corner
Nieman Notes
Masthead
- Publisher
- Bob Giles
- Editor
- Melissa Ludtke
- Assistant Editor
- Lois Fiore
- Editorial Assistant
- Elizabeth Son
- Design Editor
- Deborah Smiley
- Cover Story
- A patient’s dosage for the Phase I trial of H11, a monoclonal antibody, in the treatment of her ovarian cancer. This image has been manipulated in Adobe PhotoShop. Jetta Fraser/The (Toledo) Blade.