On May 6, 2000, the Nieman Foundation and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism convened a panel of journalists to discuss narrative journalism. This event occurred during a two-day conference focused on nonfiction writing that was part of the 2000 … Read more
Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died on the runway … Read more
Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World Lee M. Silver Avon Books. 317 Pages. $25.Those biologists who tend toward irreverence say their conservative peers have one standard response … Read more
Cameron McWhirter, NF ’07, on the reporting behind the book “American Gun” Zusha Elinson and I are reporters for The Wall Street Journal. He works out of San Francisco; I work out of Atlanta. We’ve covered a lot of mass … Read more
Social media and the ways journalists use it are facing a legal reckoning in the courts. This reckoning is easy to miss. We’re accustomed to a seemingly never-ending stream of news and commentary about internet regulation, powerful companies like Meta … Read more
Part of Izzy Gutierrez’s job as an intern at Nashville TV station WSMV was to produce peppy Instagram reels about what happens behind the scenes at the station’s lifestyle show, Today in Nashville. There was Gutierrez getting ready for … Read more
I was done. Absolutely done with writing, and especially done with writing books. This was in 2008, and I had just finished my book “Rin Tin Tin.” It was a story of the most famous dog in Hollywood, and it … Read more
