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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

Harvard Meets the Press

From the Nieman Foundation's 50th Anniversary: A Personal Account of the Early Nieman Years
September 11, 2013

Starting Arguments: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Political Cartoonist on the Right to be Offensive

All illustrations by Mark FioreJust great. My first foray into book reviewing is reviewing a book by Victor Navasky, former editor and publisher of The Nation, onetime editor at The…
June 13, 2013

The Associated Press’s Kathleen Carroll: “You can have it all if you define what it is you want”

Photo by John MinchelloAs executive editor of The Associated Press, Kathleen Carroll oversees a staff of some 2,300 journalists working in more than 100 countries. The news they gather is…
June 13, 2013

In Korea, Watchdog Journalism Worth Watching on Television

Photo courtesy of SBS“First, I just fainted and vomited, but later it became worse and my whole body was shaking.” That’s what one conscripted policeman told us about the constant…
June 13, 2013

Do the Right Thing: Watchdog Reporters Handle a Bombing in Philadelphia

Photo by Will Steacy/From the Project “Deadline”At precisely 5:27 p.m. on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police helicopter hovered over a heavily fortified…
June 13, 2013

Our Communities Crave Watchdog Journalism

Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Milwaukee Journal SentinelEarly one recent morning I fired off an e-mail to my managing editor, enraged that a story on the front page of our paper reported…
June 13, 2013

No Profession for Lone Wolves: Watchdog Reporters Need to Work Together

Once upon a time I was feeling rather smug having produced a series of reports that won a few trophies. Me? I’ll crawl across cut glass for a plastic trophy…
June 13, 2013