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Long-Form Documentaries Serve a Vital Journalistic Role

Today’s complexities don’t fit into tidy news magazine packages.

News is Strategic in the Newspaper Business

Newsroom cost cutting should not imperil its special strengths.

Radio Diarists Document Their Lives

These ‘reporters’ capture moments journalists never could.

Radio Documentaries Take Listeners Into Dark Corners

David Isay is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions. Its radio documentaries profile the lives of men, women and children living in communities often neglected or misunderstood. During the past…

A Photographer’s Journey Begins With a Coffin

By documenting youngsters’ lives, he hopes to understand what is happening.

Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

They are identical mediums, sending different messages.

My Son Became a Voice the Media Relied on

For mother and son, ‘the tug-and-pull of the media was unnerving.’

Viewer Dissatisfaction Understates the Anger at Local TV News

A journalist reports on audience concerns, but is anyone else paying attention?

A Nieman Year Spent Pondering Storytelling

‘TV documentaries were dull because they misused the medium.’

Fall 2001: Words & Reflections Introduction

Washington Post editor and columnist Meg Greenfield put it this way in her posthumous autobiography: “Few journalists have much appreciation of the enormous impact we have on the lives of…