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How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today
August 27, 2019
Domestic Violence in Kenya: Stop Blaming Women

Domestic Violence in Kenya: Stop Blaming Women

Much reporting tends to blame women for their own deaths while providing sympathetic coverage of alleged perpetrators
August 21, 2019
Domestic Violence Is Not a 'Crime of Passion'

Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’

Reporters increasingly are covering abuse by intimate partners as an urgent social crisis, not a private family matter
August 21, 2019
“If You Want to Save Democracy, You First Must Save Yourself”

“If You Want to Save Democracy, You First Must Save Yourself”

With the U.S. president no longer defending the essential role of journalism in a democracy, news outlets worldwide step up their fight for survival
August 19, 2019
How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

Trans reporters want more accurate and more sensitive coverage of trans issues and an end to false equivalency
August 15, 2019

Political Polarization and the Press

What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it
August 14, 2019
“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
July 30, 2019
Mueller’s Testimony: Journalists Allow "Optics" to Triumph Over Substance

Mueller’s Testimony: Journalists Allow “Optics” to Triumph Over Substance

The optics were flawless. The best Hollywood screenwriters and directors could not have produced a better performance. There he was, a black Republican, a decorated war hero and general, a…
July 29, 2019
Watching "the true saga of the climate crisis unfold" in global communities big and small

Watching “the true saga of the climate crisis unfold” in global communities big and small

John Sutter, NF '19, seeks to make a multi-generational climate change documentary
July 22, 2019
“We all need to be investigative critics”

“We all need to be investigative critics”

Music journalist Jim DeRogatis on R. Kelly, denial, and truth in the age of #MeToo
July 15, 2019