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Widening Gap Between Haves and Have-Nots

New Providence Island, The Bahamas, 1982. © Barbara Norfleet, “All the Right People,” Little, Brown and Company.In recent months the daily press has perched on the edge of repentance. With…

4. Nonprofit Organizations

George Rodrigue, the panel chair, began the discussion.Discussion Who’s Who Crewdson, John—Investigative National Correspondent, Chicago Tribune. Delaney, Paul—Former Assistant National Editor, New York Times, now involved in planning “Our World,”…

2. State and Local Government

Joyce Purnick, the panel chair, led the discussion.Discussion Who’s Who Bauer, Charlotte—Assistant to Editor, Sunday Times, Johannesburg. Berkes, Howard—Correspondent based in Salt Lake City, National Public Radio. Berliner, Uri—Staff Writer,…

Trials With Editors

Stan Grossfeld, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, has an enviable job as a photojournalist. An Associate Editor of The Boston Globe, he is free to go wherever his creative instincts lead…

Who Knows Better—Critics or the People?

America’s Most Wanted, 1994. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 24 x 32. By permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.“Painting By Numbers” is a book about art and freedom, authority and…

A Newsman’s Style as Envoy in Africa

When one thinks of how an ambassador’s career gets started, a rocky beach and seagulls don’t likely come to mind. But this is how Smith Hempstone, a former Editor-in-Chief of…

Get the Picture

A Personal History of Photojournalism

How to Keep the Watchdogs Watching

First Nieman Conference on Aggressive Reporting Produces Scores of Ideas, Some Conflicting

Legacy of Diana and the British Press

In July 1991, the editor of The Daily Telegraph hauled me into his office for a severe dressing down. My offense? I had written to an aide of the Duchess…

For America’s Nonprofit Sector, The Watchdog Seldom Barks

Democratic candidate Bill Yellowtail presented his views as Republican Rick Hill, left, and Natural Law Party candidate Jim Brooks, right, waited their turn in a debate in Great Falls, Montana,…