Nieman Reports

Automation in the Newsroom

By Celeste LeCompte• Technology• September 1, 2015

Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press, has been covering business since the mid-1990s. Before joining the AP, she worked as a business reporter for both local newspapers and Dow Jones Newswires and as a producer at … Read more

A Brief Guide to Robot Reporting Tools

By Jonathan Stray• Journalist’s Trade• September 1, 2015

Transparency is pointless if no one is watching, but there’s no way a human reporter can keep up with the open data created by a modern city, let alone a country. Software agents, sometimes called bots, can monitor vast … Read more

Features

Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt

By Magdi Abdelhadi• Features• August 7, 2015

One day last May, Egyptian private television station TEN broadcast an interview with Justice Minister Mahfouz Saber in which he expressed the opinion that a law graduate whose father was a garbage collector could never become a judge because … Read more

The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information

By Michael Blanding• Features• August 19, 2015

Paul Salopek had been writing international stories for more than 20 years before he decided to slow down. “I was a conventional foreign correspondent zipping around the world doing fireman stories,” he says. Working for the Chicago Tribune, he … Read more

Why News Outlets Are Watching India’s Next Billion Internet Users

By Hasit Shah• Features• August 24, 2015

Every morning, Mr. and Mrs. Singh gently shoo their dog away from the freshly delivered copies of The Times of India and the Hindustan Times, two of India’s oldest and most popular English-language newspapers, and settle down to read … Read more

Storyboard

The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

By Laura Collins-Hughes• From Nieman Reports• July 29, 2015

The day Molly Ivins died in 2007, Margaret Engel called up her twin sister Allison and told her they had to write a play about the wisecracking Texas political columnist who stuck George W. Bush with the nickname “Shrub.” … Read more

Watchdog

How to Deter Doxxing

By Rose Eveleth• Watchdog• July 17, 2015

Last November, Anna Merlan got an unexpected e-mail from Domino’s Pizza. The pizzas she ordered were ready, and she could pay for them in cash when they were delivered. The problem was, she hadn’t ordered pizza, and she no … Read more

Summer 2015

Automation in the Newsroom

Automation in the Newsroom

Automation in the Newsroom

A Brief Guide to Robot Reporting Tools

Features

Independent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt

The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information

Why News Outlets Are Watching India’s Next Billion Internet Users

Storyboard

The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

Watchdog

How to Deter Doxxing

Live@Lippmann

Medium’s Evan Hansen: “The Real Unit of Exchange Is … People”

By Evan Hansen

Niemans@Work

Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia

By Margie Mason

With his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy

By Karim Ben Khelifa

NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the wheel of a free cab he drives in Shanghai

By Frank Langfitt

Books

How Radio Reporters Turn Ideas into Feelings

By Jessica Abel

Sounding

In China, Legal Affairs Reporting Is Not Just a Beat

By Jieqi Luo

Nieman Lab

As giant platforms rise, local news is getting crushed

By Joshua Benton

Masthead