On an April morning in 2005, WJLA-TV investigative reporter Andrea McCarren set out with a photographer to do some preliminary reporting about the activities of a Prince George’s (Md.) County official about whom she’d received information on the misuse … Read more
This list of books, articles and Web sites has been compiled by Carl Sessions Stepp, a former assigning editor and now journalism professor at the University of Maryland. Books About Editing RELATED WEB LINK … Read more
Mark Kramer, who directs a narrative journalism conference each year at Boston University, opens our series of articles by asserting that “narrative writing is returning to newspapers.” The reasons are as simple as the lure of storytelling and as complex as the business environment in which newspapers struggle to survive. In this issue, newspaper writers and editors, television correspondents and anchors, journalism professors and physicians write about narrative’s revival in the telling of news. Their words speak of possibilities, but also warn of the need for caution. Read more
The day after the March for Our Lives this spring, Rebecca Schneid, co-editor of the high school newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a shooter killed 17 people in February, appeared … Read more
This piece was originally published in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports Louis Lyons, star reporter, pioneer newscaster, member of the first class of Nieman … Read more
La teoría de la disrupción del profesor Clayton M. Christensen, de la Escuela de Negocios de Harvard, provee un marco para entender cómo los negocios crecen, alcanzan el éxito, y luego se ven amenazados por start-ups más ligeras y pequeñas … Read more
