Search results for “writing the book” Showing 891 results Telling the Story of ‘Normal’ Iran Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time of the uprisings in Tehran in 2009. Fearing her life was in danger, she hurriedly… January 16, 2015 The Education of a Foreign Correspondent In 1992, when I went to Sarajevo as a young and idealistic reporter to cover the Balkan wars, there were no hostile environment courses and no PTSD de-briefings. We learned… December 12, 2014 David Finkel and the Art of Immersion Reporting David Finkel is a master of immersion reporting, most brilliantly showcased in his two books that follow U.S. soldiers in Iraq and their return to civilian life. A member of… December 12, 2014 What GamerGate Can Teach Journalists About Handling Twitter Storms Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism.” Earlier this year, this simple sentence came to encapsulate a vicious online debate. Was the social media storm known as “GamerGate” an honest… December 12, 2014 Telling Complicated, Beautiful Stories About Chicago Growing up, if my sister and I were reading, we didn’t have to do chores. So, we read all the time. We loved a good story.My mother wanted us to… December 12, 2014 Embracing Encryption in an Age of Surveillance Modern communications and the rise of the surveillance state make it harder than ever for journalists abroad to protect their sources. The consequences for sources can be dire, even fatal.Journalists… December 12, 2014 Amplifying Women’s Voices Online Flashback one week: It’s December 3. I’m watching three commentators lead their communities in discussing a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officers in the death of a man… December 11, 2014 5 Questions for Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law and computer science at Harvard who examines issues of privacy and fairness in the digital world. He is co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center… November 17, 2014 Harvard’s House of Blues Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King told Nieman Fellows about his hardscrabble beginnings and played for them one afternoon at Lippmann House back in the fall of 1980. That visit came… October 14, 2014 The Writer, Chronicler of His Time In his 1975 lecture, “The Journalist, a Chronicler of His Time,” Alejo Carpentier, a writer and journalist himself, made a distinction between the perspectives and roles of these two professions… October 3, 2014 Previous 1 … 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 … 90 Next