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Keep Digging: Remembering Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney at home in Dublin, 1996. Photo by Bobbie Hanvey/Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston CollegeAfter his mother died in 1984, Seamus Heaney found solace in…
September 11, 2013

Spring 2013: Class Notes

1954Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., a New York Times science writer who specialized in covering medical research, died of a heart attack in Hyannis, Massachusetts on April 1st. He was 89.…
June 24, 2013

Half a Revolution: The Future of Feminism is About Men

Women have entered the world of men. Now men need to enter the world of women
June 13, 2013

The Legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winner Anthony Lewis, covering “a Dark and Ominous Time”

Read Anthony Lewis’s obituary in the New York Times.Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 25, 2013. He was 85. As a reporter for…
June 13, 2013

Ask The Right Questions: MuckRock Makes FOIA Requests Easy

There is a thirst for investigative journalism in the great American traditions of the late I.F. Stone and Murrey Marder, but around the news industry the question asked is always…
June 13, 2013

Truth or Consequences: Where is Watchdog Journalism Today?

Despite budget cuts and shrinking newsrooms, watchdog reporters are finding new ways to fulfill an old mission—holding those in power to account
June 13, 2013

Playing Big: From the Chicago Tribune to Bloomberg News, Big Organziations Can Do Big Work

The battle raged over 29 words.In 1999, the Chicago Tribune published a five-part series, “Trial and Error,” that for the first time documented the incidence of prosecutorial misconduct nationally. One…
June 13, 2013

Niemans Cover the Boston Marathon Bombs

Image courtesy of the Newseum A selection of stories by Niemans about the Boston attacksThe explosions at the Boston Marathon made front-page news around the world, with Líberation in Paris,…
June 13, 2013

Reporting on Radicalization

Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Hajar Boughoula of Tunisia writes a message on the ground with chalk near a makeshift memorial for fallen MIT police officer Sean Collier on the…
June 13, 2013

2012 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

During the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize dinner, New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick talked about the work that went into his award-winning series “Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses.” Nieman…
May 13, 2013