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Public Support Wanes, Some Journalists

‘Despite the low esteem in which the news media are held today, some of the best, most courageous news coverage is being produced.’
June 15, 2006

Wealth Is Displayed, While Poverty Goes Unnoticed By Many in the Mexican Press

‘What one almost never reads or hears about in Mexico is the immense gap dividing the more well-to-do Mexicans from the native Indians ….’
March 15, 2006

Journalist Liu Binyan: China’s Conscience

On December 5, 2005, the news that 80-year-old Liu Binyan, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, had passed away saddened Chinese, both in China and abroad. Numerous condolence letters and memorial articles…
March 15, 2006

If Newspapers Are to Rise Again

‘Reinvent or die. It’s that simple.’
March 15, 2006

The Coverage of Soviet Dissidents by Western Journalists

KGB memos about Andrei Sakharov reveal the government’s increasing fear of him as his ideas received press attention in the West.
March 15, 2006

An Open Letter From Knight Ridder Alumni

What follows is a letter signed by 92 journalists who have worked for Knight Ridder newspapers. It was distributed to news media outlets in November 2005. RELATED ARTICLE“When Journalists’ Voices Are…
March 15, 2006

Creating a New Town Square

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’
December 15, 2005

Defining a Journalist’s Function

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.
December 15, 2005

Iraq’s Emerging Press

Providing the public with ‘accurate, complete and fair information was, and remains for most, an unknown concept.’
December 15, 2005

The Disconnect of News Reporting From Scientific Evidence

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’
December 15, 2005