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

An editor laments the demise of the narrative. And welcomes its return.
September 15, 2000

‘Just Write What Happened.’

Imposing a narrative structure doesn’t always work.
September 15, 2000

Questions Crime Reporters Sometimes Forget to Ask

In murder cases, the ‘easy story’ to report might be profoundly wrong.
September 15, 2000

A Story of Courage in South African Journalism

Blacks accepted the white-owned Rand Daily Mail as their champion.
September 15, 2000
Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

A leading Irish journalist ponders the consequences.
June 15, 2000

Getting to Know You

As many candidates retreat from the press, what we learn is what their strategists want us to know.
June 15, 2000

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]…
December 15, 1999

1981: Weighing Sources—Anonymous and Otherwise

The Fiction of Janet Cooke and the Pulitzer Prize Surprise
December 15, 1999

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…
September 15, 1999

Who Were You, Joe DiMaggio?

He was an ‘icon of icons’ about whom little was known.
September 15, 1999