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The Violence Reporting Project:

In 1995, Jane Ellen Stevens, a science writer, embarked on a collaborative project with Dr. Lori Dorfman, Director of the Berkeley Media Studies Group, a public health research organization, and…

Widening Gap Between Haves and Have-Nots

New Providence Island, The Bahamas, 1982. © Barbara Norfleet, “All the Right People,” Little, Brown and Company.In recent months the daily press has perched on the edge of repentance. With…

Inner Eye

A Life-Long Strategy for Learning Photojournalism

Trials With Editors

Stan Grossfeld, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, has an enviable job as a photojournalist. An Associate Editor of The Boston Globe, he is free to go wherever his creative instincts lead…

The Web Waits for the Photographer, Too

The World Wide Web has been heralded as a medium that provides new ways to explore the world and communicate what one finds. Unfortunately, very little of the anticipated paradigm…

Response: Help Is Available

I start with a point from Richard Parker’s discussion of needed improvements in journalism education and apply it more broadly.Parker argues that "fundamental democratic political concerns" should provide the context…

Is Anything Really Wrong?

Some years ago The New York Times editorial page expressed the complacent notion that "great publications magnify the voice of any single writer." The statement is misleading. The instruments of…

Response: What’s Often Missing Is Desire

Joyce Purnick speaks for many a metro and state editor when she describes the strain of keeping up with the news while watching for the big stories. At a midsize…

For State and Local Government, The Key Is Sufficient Resources

My assignment: examine the state of “aggressive journalism” in state and local government—whether we do enough of it, whether we are hard-nosed enough, whether we do what we do well…

Two Stories Seymour Hersh Never Wrote

Seymour M. Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes as an investigative reporter, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his disclosure of the My…