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The Joy of Scrolling

The Joy of Scrolling

When Ben Smith joined BuzzFeed as editor in chief in 2012, the site was better known for cute cat videos and fun lists than for serious journalism. Over the past…
Missing the Story

Missing the Story

Even from a country generating waves of extreme news—accounts of Africa’s highest GDP alongside stories of terrorism—the reports of the schoolhouse kidnappings were shocking. About 300 Nigerian schoolgirls had been…
“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

“A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility”

The co-founder of Turkey’s 140journos on building a citizen-sustained news agency from scratch

Fusion’s Jorge Ramos and America’s Latino Future

“Take a hard look,” Jorge Ramos implored his audience, “because you’re looking at a dinosaur.” Ramos wasn’t talking about his 25 years on Univision’s news desk—or about his head of…
Master of the Craft

Master of the Craft

At the Nieman Foundation’s 75th anniversary reunion, Robert A. Caro discussed the art of political biography with fellow Nieman Anne Hull
Command and Control

Command and Control

The state of journalism in China, 25 years after Tiananmen

Keeping the Faith

The idea for New Canadian Media came to me at the 2009 Nieman Narrative Conference. During a workshop session I met an editor named Andrew Lam who, like me, is…
Technology, Transparency and Traditional Media

Technology, Transparency and Traditional Media

How Weibo and WeChat are breaking the information monopoly
Eluding the "Ministry of Truth"

Eluding the “Ministry of Truth”

RELATED ARTICLESCommand and ControlBy Paul MooneyMoral HazardBy Yang XiaoInternet censorship in China is not simply matter of blocking foreign websites and deleting anything deemed harmful, nor is the state the…
Telling Malala's Story

Telling Malala’s Story

Five years ago when I interviewed a schoolmaster campaigning against Taliban who had taken over his remote mountain valley of Swat in northern Pakistan, I couldn’t imagine how it would…