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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…
Amplifying Women's Voices Online

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…
5 Questions for Jonathan Zittrain

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…
Harvard’s House of Blues

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…
The Writer, Chronicler of His Time

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…
"Thick Files and a Long Memory"

“Thick Files and a Long Memory”

Cuba may be opening up economically, but being a journalist in the country is still a risky business
Like Father, Like Daughter

Like Father, Like Daughter

Second-generation reporter Allison Steele reflects on the Inquirer newsroom, now and then

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…
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…
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,…