Nieman Reports

Cover Story: The Offending Art

The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks

By Jonathan Guyer• Features• March 24, 2015

Philadelphia Daily News cartoonist Signe Wilkinson offered a multiple-choice test in 2010 Used with the permission of Signe Wilkinson, the Washington Post Writers … Read more

Bassem Youssef: The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword

By Bassem Youssef• Features• March 24, 2015

When I was hosting my political satire show, “Al-Bernameg” (“The Program”), on Egyptian TV, I thought that making jokes made you immune to the risks many in the media faced. The Charlie Hebdo killings proved me wrong. We would … Read more

Features

In the Balkans, Whistle-Blowing News Outlets Struggle to Survive

By Vladimir Radomirovic• Features• March 17, 2015

In August 2012, Jelena Krstović was one of the most influential people in Serbia. At just 30, she was a vice president of the country’s biggest privately owned company, Delta Holding. Miroslav Mišković, the sole owner of Delta, is … Read more

A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

By Amy Webb• Features• March 19, 2015

In the fall of 2000, I sat in the large seminar room at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism listening to a lecture about whether journalists should be allowed to use digital cameras. It was meant to be … Read more

Local Weeklies Are Covering the Communities Big Dailies Ignore

By Barbara Selvin• Features• March 18, 2015

Intermission was over and the house lights were about to go down for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Brahms’s “German Requiem.” It was Saturday, October 4, 2014. Rebecca Rivas, a reporter for The St. Louis … Read more

Four Lessons from Buying and Running the Outer Banks Sentinel

By Mark Jurkowitz• Features• March 18, 2015

When I informed friends and colleagues I was leaving as associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project to buy a weekly in North Carolina’s Outer Banks there were a number of reactions. One went this way: “You just … Read more

Storyboard

Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step into the Story

By Olivia Koski• From Nieman Reports• March 19, 2015

You’re standing in the middle of an eerily empty two-lane road. Cookie-cutter apartment complexes surround you. Broad-leaved trees line the street. It looks like an average American suburb, but something’s not right. You look left, then right. Yellow … Read more

Watchdog

What Reporters Need to Know About Covering Net Neutrality

By Michael Fitzgerald• Watchdog• March 16, 2015

Imagine that the water in your home runs more slowly in the morning, when you most need it. Cooking, drinking, showering, and watering the garden are all possible, but they take longer because the flow has been reduced to … Read more

Winter 2015

The Offending Art

Cover Story: The Offending Art

The Offending Art: Political Cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo Attacks

Bassem Youssef: The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword

Features

In the Balkans, Whistle-Blowing News Outlets Struggle to Survive

A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

Local Weeklies Are Covering the Communities Big Dailies Ignore

Four Lessons from Buying and Running the Outer Banks Sentinel

Storyboard

Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step into the Story

Watchdog

What Reporters Need to Know About Covering Net Neutrality

From the Curator

Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram: Parsing the Equivalency Debate

By Ann Marie Lipinski

Live@Lippmann

Jay Lauf of Quartz: The Homepage Isn’t Dead

By Jay Lauf

Niemans@Work

A partnership created by Esquire’s Tyler Cabot, NF ’14, and Northeastern University empowers j-school students to tell old stories in new ways

By Tyler Cabot

At Fusion, Jane Spencer, NF ’13, brings together new media and a sense of public service

By Jane Spencer

2014 Visiting Fellow Samar Padmaker Halarnkar is building a data-driven site about India’s biggest challenges

By Samar Padmaker Halarnkar

Books

For Online Publications, Data Is News

By Jake Batsell

Sounding

At Harvard, a Reporter Finds Hard Lessons on Diversity in Education

By Denise-Marie Ordway

Nieman Lab

A wave of distributed content is coming — will publishers sink or swim?

By Joshua Benton

Masthead