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Reporting Science Means Looking for Cautionary Signals

Reporting Science Means Looking for Cautionary Signals

‘Experienced science writers try to keep the sense of uncertainty in their copy.’
September 15, 2002

Digging Where Journalists Don’t Dig

‘…it’s not what question we ask. It’s the fact that we ask at all.’
June 15, 2002

The Watchdog Role Business Reporters Need to Play

Journalists who cover business must prepare themselves for the job.
June 15, 2002

Corporations Work Hard to Prevent Reporting

When intimidation doesn’t work, other methods are used.
June 15, 2002

Money Makes Headlines in Today’s News Coverage

‘A creeping indifference and a silent hollowing out.’
June 15, 2002

Spring 2002: Introduction

On a late fall weekend in 2001, the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism convened its first conference. More than 800 journalists traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to take part in three…
March 15, 2002

Conference Diary

Ideas and insights, opinions and suggestions—all of these surfaced again and again in the swirl of presentations. What follows are snippets from these sessions that didn’t find a home on…
March 15, 2002

Serial Narratives

Their power comes from ‘that delicious sense of enforced waiting.’
March 15, 2002

‘Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.’

Tim O’Brien had the bad fortune to be caught up in the Vietnam War, and he’s written about it several times, and he wrote a book called “The Things They…
March 15, 2002

A Love Fest on Narrative Elements

It’s the voice, you fool. No, it’s the theme, dummy. No, it’s the story, you buttonhead.
March 15, 2002