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1990: The Impact of Public Opinion Polls

Do they shape or measure opinions?

1996: Needed: Long-Haul Commitment

Photo by Keith Greene, News & Observer, courtesy of The News & Observer.[This article originally appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of Nieman Reports.]The best environmental story I ever worked…

1998: Making Sense Out of a Tragedy

Photographers line airport road to photograph one of the funerals of a Westside Middle School shooting victim. Nettleton cemetery is located across the street. Photo by Bill Templeton/The Jonesboro Sun.[This…

1983: Press Performance: Enough Is Too Little

Encouraging words on a new and healthyphenomenon—the press is taking a hard look inward and examining itself.

1999: Reporters’ Relationships With Sources

[This article originally appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog Journalism Conference [May 15, 1999 at Harvard University]…

1993: Scouts Without Compasses

War in the Balkans is forcing correspondents to rewrite their guidelines.

1966: Custodians of the City

[This article originally appeared in the March 1966 issue of Nieman Reports.]I was in Greenville when the age of electronic journalism first came creeping in, and I have always thought…

1959: Birthday Address To the National Press Club

[This article originally appeared in the October 1959 issue of Nieman Reports.]I do not think that I need to tell you that standing on this famous platform I feel awkward…

1961: Are We the Best Informed Nation?

[This article originally appeared in the July 1961 issue of Nieman Reports.]“Communications specialists” and working newspapermen sometimes glibly assert without a shred of proof that the American people are the…

What Happens When Journalists Envision a Web Site and Techies Try to Build It?

Generations clash. Cultures collide. And promises cannot be kept.