Search results for “nytimes” Showing 478 results Big Data, Income Mobility, and the American Dream Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty shows a data visualization model that The New York Times created from research he and his colleagues did on income mobility in the United States.… February 14, 2014 Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the 2013 Joe Alex Morris… February 12, 2014 Clear and Present Danger The NSA, surveillance and the threat to press freedom February 10, 2014 Winter 2014: Class Notes Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90, welcomes attendees to the 75th anniversary dinner at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Lisa Abitbol Celebrating 75 yearsIn September, more… January 31, 2014 Follow the Money In the fall of 2011, while researching a story on China’s business elites for The New York Times, I made a startling find: a set of corporate documents that linked… January 31, 2014 Up Close and Personal Watch video of Osnos’s Morris Lecture, from which this essay was adapted In 1948, the Harvard Sinologist John King Fairbank wrote, “China is a journalist’s dream and a statistician’s nightmare.”… January 31, 2014 Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013 Students at the Melpark Primary School in Johannesburg sing “Happy Birthday” as they celebrate former president Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. Photo by Denis Farrell/The Associated PressNelson Mandela, the first black… December 5, 2013 The Too-Many Prisoners Dilemma With society potentially poised to turn the corner on mass incarceration, will news organizations rise to the challenge and increase their coverage? Or do limited resources and a lack of… October 16, 2013 I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr., NF ’86 As co-founder, publisher and editor of Panama’s independent newspaper La Prensa, I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr. faced physical and economic danger under the regimes of Omar Torrijos and Manuel Antonio Noriega.… September 24, 2013 Geneva Overholser, NF ’86 In 1991, The Des Moines Register’s series about a rape victim won a Pulitzer for Public Service. The subject of the series, Nancy Ziegenmeyer, decided to go public after reading a column… September 18, 2013 Previous 1 … 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 … 48 Next
