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Fusion’s Jorge Ramos and America’s Latino Future

“Take a hard look,” Jorge Ramos implored his audience, “because you’re looking at a dinosaur.” Ramos wasn’t talking about his 25 years on Univision’s news desk—or about his head of…
March 17, 2014

Parsing Politics in China, Egypt, and an Orthodox Jewish Community

Harvard law professor Noah Feldman spoke to the 2014 Nieman Fellows about the intense scrutiny and criticism he faced after writing about his work in Tunisia and writing a personal…
February 24, 2014
A Conversation and a Box of Kleenex

A Conversation and a Box of Kleenex

Lea Thau explains the editorial and emotional processes behind live storytelling
February 6, 2014

Stand and Deliver

Telling a story on the stage, not the page
February 6, 2014
“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she was the paper’s first female White House correspondent.…
February 4, 2014

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