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The Fred Friendly Impact

It was a coin toss as to which provoked more contempt in my youth, authority or celebrity.Fred Friendly combined them both, though his celebrity was of the professional, behind-the-scenes sort.…

Two Stories Seymour Hersh Never Wrote

Seymour M. Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes as an investigative reporter, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his disclosure of the My…

Response: Eye Always on Bureaucracies

The late Peter Kihss was one of the greatest American reporters of the 20th Century. Year after year, on a huge variety of subjects, he produced spot news and investigative…

The Ken Galbraith (and Bill Buckley) Show

My interview with John Kenneth Galbraith began with his asking me a question. Peering down from his 6 feet 8 inches, the 88-year-old Galbraith inquired, “Just how many hours do…

The Case for Bus Rapid Transit

Much has been written about America’s love affair with the automobile. That’s why Nieman Reports is devoting the bulk of this edition to highways. What has been overlooked has been…

Bashing American Schools

How the Print and Visual Media All Too Often Misunderstand, Misrepresent and Thereby Misreport and Severely Damage Our American System of Public Education

A Seminarian Becomes a Reporter

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Every journalist Has a Credo

The precise moment journalism and religion came together for me was my senior year in college. I was in the library, reading The New York Times. There on page one…

Trials of a Jehovah’s Witness

From the third grade on, I knew that I wanted to write. From early childhood, when my mother taught me the Lord’s Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the 100th Psalm,…

American Indian Spirituality

When asked to write about the influence of his Native American spirituality on his work as a journalist, Tim Giago — award-winning Founder, Editor and Publisher of Indian Country Today…