An Optimistic Plunge Into Multimedia Reporting

By Joe Howry• Technology• December 15, 2006

‘One columnist took on a controversial local issue and covered it in a way we'd never done before.’ Read more

H.L. Mencken: Courage in a Time of Lynching

By Marion Elizabeth Rodgers• June 15, 2006

Subscriptions were cancelled, threats made on him and Sunpapers’ staff, and advertisers’ products were boycotted, but Mencken's words were published. Read more

The Life and Times of Foreign Correspondents in Russia

By Alvin Shuster• Opinion• December 15, 2005

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it. Read more

Photojournalism Students Cover Hurricane Katrina in Their First Leap Into a Real-World Crisis

By Eli Reed• Nieman Notes• December 15, 2005

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’ Read more

Online Timeline

By David Carlson• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2005

1962 United States U.S. Air Force contracts with Rand Corp. to study computer networking for defense purposes. 1963 United States Ted Nelson, an author and futurist, coins the word “hypertext.” RELATED ARTICLES … Read more

Taking Time to Understand the Story to Be Told

By Michael Moore• Features• September 15, 2005

To report this story meant ‘immersing ourselves in a system of government and a way of life that, shamefully, we knew little about.’ Read more

Time and Techniques Define A ‘New New Journalism’

By Madeleine Blais• Opinion• September 15, 2005

Conversations with writers reveal how and why their stories are being told in different ways. Read more

The New York Times’s Travails in the Reign of Raines

By David Nyhan• Opinion• March 15, 2005

‘As the ship veered onto the rocks, those who voiced warnings were ignored, while the bosses told each other how smart they were.’ Read more

Trapped in a Time-Warped Narrative

By Fergal Keane• International Journalism• September 15, 2004

A BBC foreign correspondent pleads with journalists to move past their relentless focus on Africa’s misery.   Read more

Managing Media in Times of Crisis

By Gwen Lister• International Journalism• September 15, 2004

Gwen Lister, editor of The Namibian, an independent daily newspaper in Namibia, spoke to delegates at the UNESCO conference on “Freedom of Expression and Conflict Management in Crisis Situations and Countries in Transition,” held in May 2004 in Belgrade, Serbia. Read more