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Where Are the Women?

Where Are the Women?

At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation’s leading…
September 11, 2014
"Thick Files and a Long Memory"

“Thick Files and a Long Memory”

Henry Constantin was a 22-year-old journalism student at a Cuban university in 2006 when he proposed a thesis critical of the country’s brand of reporting. He was promptly kicked out…
September 11, 2014
Like Father, Like Daughter

Like Father, Like Daughter

The following is an excerpt from Will Steacy’s “Deadline.”Perhaps like many children of newspaper reporters, I came to understand small pieces of my father’s job before the full picture of…
September 11, 2014

Film as Long-form

There should be a recovery group for what I am: an author of nonfiction books, born in the 1970s. Yet I received shared Emmy and National Magazine Award nominations in…
September 11, 2014
Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, has reason to be nervous. That’s partly because of his personality—detailed in “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace…
September 11, 2014
Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Right about the time that my late husband was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, I started obsessing on vampire novels. There I was, sitting by my husband’s bedside, pondering mortality,…
July 17, 2014
Ben Smith: The Complete Transcript

Ben Smith: The Complete Transcript

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…
July 17, 2014
Form Follows Function

Form Follows Function

Form follows function. Just what that axiom means, applied to journalism, was revealed to me by a man named Carl Newton, city editor of The Atlanta Journal when I arrived…
July 15, 2014
Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane

On May 13, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project awards were presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, and Adrienne Berard, a 2013 graduate of…
June 3, 2014
A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened

A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened

Our Nieman class, arriving in the fall of 2006, had a contingent of journalists who came to leafy, placid Cambridge from covering Iraq and Afghanistan.For them, the year was in…
April 7, 2014