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21st Century Muckrakers: Introduction

Fatima Tlisova witnessed the injustice of villagers being poisoned by pollution from a nuclear lab nearby; she reported their story in a place where journalists risk their lives for sharing…
July 1, 2009

Going to Where the Fish Are Disappearing

Investigative reporters in Sweden set out to tell the story of why and how illegal fishing of cod was happening—and what it meant to consumers and businesses in their country.
July 1, 2009

Filling a Local Void: J-School Students Tackle Watchdog Reporting

‘Those of us who have been investigative reporters have a responsibility to ensure that local watchdogging remains robust in our industry.’
June 15, 2009

Blogging in Iran

September 2001 – First Iranian blog appears on the Internet.November 2001 – Blogger Hossein Derakhshan develops a step-by-step guide to blogging in Farsi.RELATED ARTICLE“Attempting to Silence Iran’s ‘Weblogistan’”– Mohamed Abdel…
June 15, 2009

The Human Lessons: They Lie at the Core of Reporting in Iran

‘When we work in countries without press freedoms, we scarcely know the pressures on the people we encounter, the complexities of their motivations, the dimensions of their fears.’
June 15, 2009

The Challenges and Opportunities of 21st Century Muckraking

‘… investigative reporters are a hardy breed who will tenaciously uphold their watchdog mission in bad times as well as good.’
June 15, 2009
Peering Inside Contemporary Iran

Peering Inside Contemporary Iran

An exhibit of photographs of Iran featuring the work of Iason Athanasiadis, a 2008 Nieman Fellow, opened for a three-month show in January at the Craft and Folk Art Museum…
June 15, 2009
Life Being Lived in Quintessential Irish Moments

Life Being Lived in Quintessential Irish Moments

“Beyond the Moment: Irish Photojournalism in Our Time” is the title of a fine slab of a book recently published by the Press Photographers Association of Ireland. This is Ireland…
June 15, 2009

A Visual Witness to Iran’s Revolution

In the mid-1960’s, Reza Deghati taught himself the principles of photography as a 14 year old living in Tabriz, Iran. During the early 1970’s, his pictures were of rural society…
June 15, 2009

Iran: News Happens, But Fewer Journalists Are There to Report It

In a time of global engagement—economic, political, environmental, energy and health, to name a few—budget cuts at news organizations severely limit foreign news coverage.
June 15, 2009