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Follow the Money

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

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

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

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

Models of Great Coverage

Though The New York Times lacks a beat reporter and covers the issue of mass incarceration sporadically at best, those three pieces by Tierney in early 2013 addressed two key…
September 18, 2013

How to Keep Sources Secure from Surveillance

In an encrypted Q&A with The New York Times Magazine, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden warned that journalists have been slow to properly respond to the threat of government…
September 18, 2013

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