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A Serbian Journalist Answers Critics

Should independent media have agreed to government censorship during the war? ‘Yes,’ one editor says.
June 15, 2000

Summer 2000: Words & Reflections Introduction

If the conscientious practice of journalism is essential to democracy, as the First Amendment attests, then what, if any, contemporary forces are undermining the critical role journalists have historically played?…
June 15, 2000

Why Should the Public Trust Journalists?

A long-time journalist looks outside his practice for answers.
June 15, 2000

‘Things Are Not OK.’

An author argues that journalism’s watchdogs are being silenced by greed.
June 15, 2000

1980: The New Reality

[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1980 issue of Nieman Reports.]Martin Chuzzlewit, the hero of Dickens’s novel of that name, sails to the United States on a packet boat.…
December 15, 1999

1955: The Seven Deadly Virtues

[This article originally appeared in the July 1955 issue of Nieman Reports.]…So revolutionary a change in the role of the American citizen was bound to have its effect on American…
December 15, 1999

1971: White Newsmen and Black Critics

[This article originally appeared in the September 1971 issue of Nieman Reports.]Can white reporters accurately report events that involve blacks and other minority groups? This question—and the related topic of…
December 15, 1999

Newspapermen and Lawyers

[July 1960] – I propose to speak tonight on a moderately pretentious topic, the public responsibilities of newspapermen and lawyers.…As my concern is public responsibility in our professions, I want…
December 15, 1999

1974: Words on Pictures

[This article originally appeared in the Autumn 1974 issue of Nieman Reports.]The media—and in particular newspapers—are taken to task by Edwin Newman in the October [1974] issue of The Atlantic…
December 15, 1999

1952: Does Press Freedom Include Photography?

Consider the record of smashed cameras and the arbitrary barring of news photographers.
December 15, 1999