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Dying to Get the Story

A journalist reflects on which risks are necessary.

Narrative Journalism Comes of Age

Some find it hard to accept. Others embrace it.

The Troubles We’ve Seen

In Northern Ireland, the journalists search for explanations.

Getting to Know You

As many candidates retreat from the press, what we learn is what their strategists want us to know.

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?…

‘Things Are Not OK.’

An author argues that journalism’s watchdogs are being silenced by greed.

1959: The Square Eye vs. the Written Word

“Television by its nature has to move on…it cannot explain or expound.”—Muggeridge. Civil rights march on Washington, D.C., 1963. Photo courtesy of the Still Picture Branch, National Archives at College…

1983: … The Crucial 1940’s

[This article originally appeared in the Spring 1983 issue of Nieman Reports.]Scottsdale, Arizona — Two dozen of those whose reporting from China in the 1940’s helped shape American attitudes and…

1979: Yes Virginia, There Is an Agnes

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1979 issue of Nieman Reports.]…Louis M. Lyons, as Nieman Curator, continually struggled against the ban on women from the program. His correspondence with…

What Difference Would It Make If Reporters Knew a War Crime When They Saw One?

This article is excerpted from a paper prepared by Roy Gutman, a correspondent for Newsday, for the International Studies Association conference held in Vienna, Austria in September 1998.Human rights abuses,…