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Missing the Story

Missing the Story

Even from a country generating waves of extreme news—accounts of Africa’s highest GDP alongside stories of terrorism—the reports of the schoolhouse kidnappings were shocking. About 300 Nigerian schoolgirls had been…
July 16, 2014
Talk to the Hand

Talk to the Hand

When a chemical spill contaminated the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia in January, Charleston Gazette reporters Ken Ward and David Gutman repeatedly asked the…
July 16, 2014
“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

The co-founder of Turkey’s 140journos on building a citizen-sustained news agency from scratch
July 15, 2014
Chasing Paper with YanukovychLeaks

Chasing Paper with YanukovychLeaks

July 15, 2014
Form Follows Function

Form Follows Function

Form follows function. Just what that axiom means, applied to journalism, was revealed to me by a man named Carl Newton, city editor of The Atlanta Journal when I arrived…
July 15, 2014

Nurturing the Next Generation of Watchdogs

On my way into work at Medill Watchdog for the first time, I stopped at Hanig’s Shoe Store. It was February 1, 2011, part of a three-day storm in which…
July 15, 2014
Rewriting J-School

Rewriting J-School

How journalism schools are trying to connect classrooms to newsrooms
June 16, 2014
Remembering William Worthy

Remembering William Worthy

William Worthy, who fought with the government over reporting trips to China, Cuba and Iran, died at a nursing home in Massachusetts on May 4. He was 92. It was…
June 3, 2014
Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

On May 13, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project awards were presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, and Adrienne Berard, a 2013 graduate of…
June 3, 2014
Deadly Times for Journalists in Afghanistan

Deadly Times for Journalists in Afghanistan

Sangar Rahimi, a current Nieman Fellow and reporter for The New York Times in Afghanistan, addressed the US delegation to the United Nations in New York on April 25. Samantha…
April 30, 2014