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YouTube’s Ecosystem for News

‘Our users innovate at an extraordinary pace and in ways that amaze us, make our world more transparent, and change the way we consume information and are informed.’
June 14, 2010

Categorizing What Works—So We Can Apply Those Lessons to Future Endeavors

As journalism heads into digital territory, an exploration of online news sites reveals 100 that offer promising pathways.
June 14, 2010

Summer 2010: Class Notes

Headliner Awards for Print and Radio Journalism Three Nieman Fellows have been honored by the National Headliner Awards program, which is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing…
June 11, 2010

A New Focus: Adjusting to Viewers’ Increasing Sophistication About Images

In an age when visual literacy is common, photojournalists may need to bring fresh sensibilities to their work.
March 30, 2010

Digital Stories Are Being Chosen and Consumed à la Dim Sum

In the absence of a front page—or even a home page, will readers confront a crisis of context? Or will convenience and a self-confidence in judgment triumph?
March 30, 2010

Reaching Out With Appreciation to Brave Colleagues in Afghanistan

Through the Lyons award and a teleconference with journalists in Kabul, the Niemans pay tribute to the work of Afghan reporters and hear about the difficulties they face.
March 30, 2010

Preparing the Next Generation of Photojournalists

Exposure, a photojournalism, documentary studies, and human rights program, ‘prepares students for immersive experiences and guides them in their efforts to document through photography what they observe.’
March 30, 2010

The Important History News Organizations Have to Tell

By creating archives of company records ‘we can learn how the paper developed and organized itself, how editors and reporters approached stories, and how community leaders and ordinary citizens responded…
December 17, 2009

When Murder Strikes a Small Community

‘What is a news organization’s responsibility to its reporters who are eyewitness to murder? Can an editorial staff experience depression or long-term PTSD as a result of such exposure?’
December 15, 2009

Approaching Emotional Pain—As a Journalist

‘Routinely we witness the awful things that people do to each other and the most enduring awfulness of all, the aftermath.’
December 15, 2009