Nieman Reports

Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

A look at news organizations that have found physical homes inside libraries

By Eryn Carlson

Opinion: Ethics

When It Comes to Free Speech, Walmart has Something to Teach Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

If social media platforms can’t excise truly harmful behavior and content, they must relinquish their enormous power

By Issac J. Bailey

Election ’20: Covering the Campaign

“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

How reporters and editors plan to cover the 2020 election differently—better

By Christine Schmidt

Q&A

“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield on being careful and slow rather than fast and wrong, the Harvard courses that help her understand the country, and judging the trustworthiness of sources

By Anna Fifield

Books

Agents for Good: How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

In “Automating the News,” Nicholas Diakopoulos is optimistic about a hybrid human-algorithm journalistic practice

By Nicholas Diakopoulos

Opinion

Covering the Complexities of Abortion

As more and more states pass legislation restricting abortion, journalists need to better understand the issue from a women’s point-of-view

By Issac J. Bailey

Live @ Lippmann

“Have more faith and trust in the public to be able to digest challenging information and to actually be looking for that”

Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein and editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery on the keys to their success growing their audience and revenues

Election ’20: Covering the Campaign

Using Rapid-Response Expertise to Strengthen 2020 Campaign Coverage

Collaboration with academics can help time-stressed reporters assess candidates’ policy proposals and produce issues-centric journalism

By Rick Weiss

Opinion

Journalistic Collaboration is a Key to Survival

A project at Montclair State University’s School of Communication and Media shows how collaboration can beat competition in covering complex issues

By Mark Effron

Opinion

Why are Journalism Contests So Expensive to Enter?

As freelancers make up more and more of the workforce, award administrators should rethink their rules

By Rose Eveleth

Niemans @ Work

Live-Blogging the Stock Market: Deb Price, NF ’11, is leading a team at South China Morning Post to offer news average readers can use

By Deb Price

Recent Stories

A look at news organizations that have found physical homes inside libraries

If social media platforms can’t excise truly harmful behavior and content, they must relinquish their enormous power

How reporters and editors plan to cover the 2020 election differently—better

Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield on being careful and slow rather than fast and wrong, the Harvard courses that help her understand the country, and judging the trustworthiness of sources

In “Automating the News,” Nicholas Diakopoulos is optimistic about a hybrid human-algorithm journalistic practice

As more and more states pass legislation restricting abortion, journalists need to better understand the issue from a women’s point-of-view

Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein and editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery on the keys to their success growing their audience and revenues

Collaboration with academics can help time-stressed reporters assess candidates’ policy proposals and produce issues-centric journalism

A project at Montclair State University’s School of Communication and Media shows how collaboration can beat competition in covering complex issues

As freelancers make up more and more of the workforce, award administrators should rethink their rules

Media studies scholar Heather Hendershot on Walter Cronkite, Mayor Daley, and coverage of the Chicago Democratic Convention