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The Numbers Game in African Reporting

Statistics don’t matter when disease and disaster exact such high human tolls in Africa.

Trapped in a Time-Warped Narrative

A BBC foreign correspondent pleads with journalists to move past their relentless focus on Africa’s misery.  

Partnering With Young People

A program to improve child health engages teenagers interested in journalism.

Transparency Benefits the Practice of Journalism

‘The Nieman Watchdog Project … is grounded in the belief that probing questions are essential to informed reporting.’

Managing Media in Times of Crisis

Gwen Lister, editor of The Namibian, an independent daily newspaper in Namibia, spoke to delegates at the UNESCO conference on “Freedom of Expression and Conflict Management in Crisis Situations and…

The Government Silenced Zimbabwe’s Only Independent Newspaper

‘Revealing the facts about their corruption and mismanagement really makes bad rulers mad.’

China and the Internet: A Reader Responds

“Is Internet censorship worth fighting?,” Jonathan Zittrain asks in his article, “China and Internet Filters,” in the Summer edition of Nieman Reports. While the Berkman Center for Internet and Society…

Caught Between the Cold War and the Internet

How foreign news will be covered is a question—with a few possible answers.

Proposing a Variation on Embedded Reporting

Switching from the battlefield to inside a military hospital, we would ‘explore the physical and psychological aftermath of war.’

Emotional Connections to African Reporting

Zambia’s orphaned children portray many dimensions of the human toll of AIDS.