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Jobs Change or Vanish: Niemans Discover an Unanticipated Bonus in Community Work

From tutoring to volunteer firefighting to working with at-risk children, fellows use their skills to dig into their surroundings.
June 24, 2009

The Virtual Iran Beat

‘Speaking Farsi helps expand our ability to gather news. It means we can tap into a more extensive network and speak to more Iranians, even if we’re not based in…
June 12, 2009

Journalists Use Novels to Reveal What Reporting Doesn’t Say

‘My pitch: An experienced journalist grows discontented with journalism’s limitations and turns to fiction as a more accurate way to reflect the reality of life in the Middle East.’
June 11, 2009

They Blog, I Blog, We All Blog

An Australian blogger interviews dissident bloggers worldwide, and in his book he explains why what they do matters and who is trying to stop them.
June 11, 2009

Seven Visas = Continuity of Reporting From Iran

‘The Iranian government sometimes appears to favor U.S. reporters with little knowledge of the country who might be more amenable to spin, although that has not happened in my case.’
June 9, 2009

A Small Newspaper Tackles a Big Investigative Project

The persistence of two reporters pays off in revealing how local government failed residents who worried about connections between corporate behavior and the high incidence of brain cancer.
March 25, 2009

Investigating What Harms People—As an Independent Reporter

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter writes about ‘hurdles to obtain meager funding or to overcome editors’ reluctance to support the stories’—and offers suggestions.
March 20, 2009

Long-Form Multimedia Journalism: Quality Is the Key Ingredient

As a producer of social documentary projects—viewed on digital platforms—Brian Storm talks about the excitement of doing journalism in this way, at this time.
March 15, 2009

Using Strength of Evidence to Tell a Powerful Story About Torture

‘… there’s still an odd disconnect between the issues about which she’s done such superb reporting and the lack of informed public debate about them.’
December 23, 2008

No Time Left for Reluctant Transformers

‘Digitally based consumption by a fragmented audience requires new and sophisticated distribution mechanics … smartly connect[ing] consumers to available, relevant content in virtually unlimited ways.’
December 23, 2008