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Critical Condition

“If you are counting full-time critic jobs at newspapers, you may as well count tombstones.” That was the response of Johanna Keller, director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at…
March 12, 2013

The Abnormality of Daily Life

The stench seeps through the walls of the morgue. It wafts through schools, businesses and homes, impregnates clothing, sticks in throats and noses, provokes nausea, obliges one to walk faster.…
March 11, 2013

Download the Cover Package

Instructions:FOR KINDLE: Download and save the .mobi file to your computer, then transfer to your Kindle via USB, Send to Kindle, or your Kindle e-mail address.FOR TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES: Download…
March 11, 2013

“Exposing the Forces that Grind People Down”

For more than 30 years, author Barbara Ehrenreich has been trying to engage and enrage the public about the devastating impact of poverty in the United States. She’s had some…
March 11, 2013

Concision and Clarity: The Video Interview

Rock criticism was not a profession, much less an art, when Robert Christgau returned to New York after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1962, at the age of 20. The…
March 6, 2013

Concision and Clarity: The Extended Transcript

Brett Anderson: We’re here with Robert Christgau, the dean of American rock critics.Robert Christgau: Got it right.Brett: …who has been writing about popular music professionally for closing in on 50 years.…
March 5, 2013

Values and Voting Systems

In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama stated that, in the Middle East, the United States "will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights and…
March 5, 2013

Interview With a Watchdog Journalist

“Never stop asking for public documents,” says Boston Globe reporter Jenifer B. McKim, NF ’08, in the first of a series of Q. and A.'s with Nieman Fellows about watchdog…
January 4, 2013

Mastering Disruptive Innovation

PROGRAM UPDATE: Please note that the Nieman seminar with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen planned for Wednesday, Dec. 5, has been postponed. We will reschedule the event and…
December 4, 2012

At the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Watchdog Reporting is King

Marty Kaiser has been editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 15 years, and during that time he has had to make a lot of cuts to his newsroom. The…
November 21, 2012