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Chinua Achebe: Unstoppable, Unbeatable

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of “Things Fall Apart,” died on March 11. Photo by Craig Ruddle/The Associated PressThe story of Africa and the insight many have into her traditions…

What Happened in Qubair

Deborah Amos, NF ’92, on covering a massacre in a central Syrian farming village

The Story Behind ‘Playing With Fire’

In April 2011, Chicago Tribune reporter Patricia Callahan sat in a California Senate hearing, listening in rapt attention as burn surgeon David Heimbach described in excruciating detail how a seven-week-old…
“Truth Is Not About What the Majority Believes”

“Truth Is Not About What the Majority Believes”

Documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris on how we are all error-generating machines

The Jobs Crisis

Job creation is a key topic in the presidential election but so far it's been all sound bites and no substance. Dan Froomkin, a new contributing editor to Nieman Reports…

Complicated Matters

Veteran investigative journalist Ken Armstrong, NF ’01, encourages his fellow reporters to look for patterns rather than isolated anecdotes, to focus on what others have to say rather than joust…

Ghosts Speaking Across the Page

They died the same weekend, one 26, a prodigy of the Internet age who took his own life, the other an 89-year-old whose moral battles were waged on newsprint and…
Bolivia by Bus

Bolivia by Bus

How Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08, and his daily newspaper went off the map to rediscover their own country

From Twitter to Gellhorn via Mexico

Three Nieman Visiting Fellows undertake diverse short-term projects during 2013

Winter 2013: Class Notes

1962Sebastiaan Kleu, a South African editor and economist, died of heart failure on October 11th. He was 85.Kleu began his career in journalism on the editorial board of the Afrikaans-language…