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Wanted: a 21st Century Journalist

Drop the arrogance. Be interactive. Have technological savvy.

Has the Camera’s Eye Replaced the Writer’s Descriptive Hand?

An editor laments the demise of the narrative. And welcomes its return.

‘Just Write What Happened.’

Imposing a narrative structure doesn’t always work.

Questions Crime Reporters Sometimes Forget to Ask

In murder cases, the ‘easy story’ to report might be profoundly wrong.

A Story of Courage in South African Journalism

Blacks accepted the white-owned Rand Daily Mail as their champion.
Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

A leading Irish journalist ponders the consequences.

Getting to Know You

As many candidates retreat from the press, what we learn is what their strategists want us to know.

1999: Reporters’ Relationships With Sources

[This article originally appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.]No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog Journalism Conference [May 15, 1999 at Harvard University]…

1981: Weighing Sources—Anonymous and Otherwise

The Fiction of Janet Cooke and the Pulitzer Prize Surprise

Reporters’ Relationships With Sources

No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog conference as that of reporters’ relationships with sources. How are these relationships established? How can and should they be…