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Surveillance and Security

The National Security Agency has been accused of collecting data from the servers of web companies like Google, whose data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa is pictured here. Image courtesy…
January 9, 2014

Top 10 Investigative Journalism Books of 2013

“Dirty Wars,” Jeremy Scahill’s exposé on the U.S. government’s tactics for fighting terrorism since September 11, 2001, is Steve Weinberg’s pick for best investigative journalism book of 2013. Author photo…
December 13, 2013

The Too-Many Prisoners Dilemma

With society potentially poised to turn the corner on mass incarceration, will news organizations rise to the challenge and increase their coverage? Or do limited resources and a lack of…
October 16, 2013
The Meaning of the Nieman

The Meaning of the Nieman

How the Nieman Foundation and Harvard continue to “educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism”—and why that matters
October 8, 2013
A Gift Beyond Measure

A Gift Beyond Measure

As I prepared to begin my tour as curator during the summer of 2000, I worked at framing a vision of how the Nieman Foundation might build on its legacy…
October 8, 2013

János Horvát, NF ’76

Having launched and operated a number of cable television channels in Hungary, Horvát was named the nation’s ambassador to Cuba in 2006 In 1975, Paul Ipper, the New York correspondent…
October 6, 2013
Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08

Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08

The former editor in chief of the Bolivian daily Página Siete, Peñaranda is a fierce proponent of press freedom. To produce a series called “Journey to the Heart of Bolivia,”…
September 24, 2013

Harry S. Ashmore, NF ’42

As executive editor of The Arkansas Gazette, Ashmore (1916–1998) was a leading voice against segregation I remember going over to the President’s house. It was a very impressive thing for…
September 18, 2013
Tim Giago, NF ’91

Tim Giago, NF ’91

Giago founded the Lakota Times (now Indian Country Today), the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the U.S. I first entered Walter Lippmann House filled with fear and anticipation.…
September 18, 2013

How to Keep Sources Secure from Surveillance

In an encrypted Q&A with The New York Times Magazine, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden warned that journalists have been slow to properly respond to the threat of government…
September 18, 2013