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1972: Reflections on Vietnam, the Press And America

[This article originally appeared in the March 1972 issue of Nieman Reports.]God knows we are not perfect as professionals. To be honest, after eight years of covering the Vietnam War,…
December 15, 1999

1979: Nonwhite America: The ‘Unseen Environment’

The managerial ranks of newspapers are a purer white than Ivory Snow.
December 15, 1999

1978: Covering the Real Politics

Busing students to Hyde Park (Boston) High School in 1974. Photo by Paul Connell, courtesy of The Boston Globe.[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1978 issue of Nieman Reports.]…I…
December 15, 1999

1964: Calvin Coolidge and the Press

[This article originally appeared in the September 1964 issue of Nieman Reports.] The press conference as an organized biweekly meeting was instituted by Woodrow Wilson, fell into disrepair under Harding,…
December 15, 1999

1959: Birthday Address To the National Press Club

[This article originally appeared in the October 1959 issue of Nieman Reports.]I do not think that I need to tell you that standing on this famous platform I feel awkward…
December 15, 1999

The Roots of Our Responsibility

The American press was halfway through the century just ended before journalists began to talk seriously about press responsibility. A letter Henry Luce wrote to Robert Hutchins, President of the…
December 15, 1999

Reporting Stories in Russia That No One Will Publish

Those who own and control the media want to secure political influence, not to uncover political corruption.
September 15, 1999

The Role of Reporters’ Judgment

A question from the audience elicited discussion about whether there can ever be truly “independent sources.” The whole notion of independent sources, this questioner posed to the journalists, “is an…
September 15, 1999

Is ‘New Media’ Really New?

For news agency reporters, technology changes but not how the job is done.
September 15, 1999

The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health

Nurses’ experience and research is vital to, but absent from, these stories.
September 15, 1999