Nieman Reports
Summer 2007
Islam: Reporting in Context and With Complexity

This collection of articles explores the challenges journalists encounter in their coverage of Islam in the wake of 9/11. Words and images that follow speak to these difficulties but also address ways in which journalists—and scholars who study Islam—are striving to anchor their work in a knowledgeable context and imbue it with essential layers of complexity.
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Words & Reflections
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Summer 2007: Words & Reflections Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke
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Two Years Later, Justice Denied
By Andrea McCarren
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Newspapers, Schools and Newsroom Diversity
By Dan Sullivan
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The Civil Rights Struggle and the Press
By Mary C. Curtis
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Predicting Digital Media Challenges Is Not Difficult
By Cameron McWhirter
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‘A Voice, a Brain, and a Notebook’
By Dan Froomkin
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Revisiting the Vanguard of Women Journalists
By Kay Mills
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Demonstrating the Craft of Writing
By Tom Ehrenfeld
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A Sampling of Clark’s 50 Writing Tools
By Tom Ehrenfeld