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What Often Goes Unsaid

The racial dynamic of what happens inside a newsroom is ‘an elusive if contentious subject that seldom rises to become a topic of media forums or workshops—except when minority journalists…
October 3, 2011

Will Machines Replace Journalists?

After looking at start-ups for their book, “The Monkey That Won a Pulitzer,” two Italian journalists launched a project that uses motion graphics to tell news stories with context.
September 28, 2011

Evin Prison: A Destination for ‘Troublesome’ Journalists In Iran

Nicola Bruno’s provocative piece about machines replacing journalists is among the essays featured in this section of Nieman Reports. Other writers take us inside Tehran’s Evin prison, where Iran held…
September 27, 2011

Being There to See—With the Challenge of Being Heard

‘I learned quickly that for a black reporter to cover a civil rights story in the Deep South and live to tell about it, I had to blend in.’ 
September 15, 2011

A Father’s Life Tugs His Son to Revisit Unsolved Crimes

‘More and more I was looking not just at my father’s story but also at the unfinished business of the civil rights movement.’
September 14, 2011

Carl Sandburg’s Reporting Foretold the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

‘No other mainstream white journalist in America’s second largest city was writing anything close to Sandburg’s depth about its festering racial problems.’
September 13, 2011

Egyptian Journalism: An Oddly Connected Mix of Old and New Media

‘… in this disheartening traditional media landscape, we find encouraging signs of independent media—in the truest sense of the phrase …’
September 13, 2011

Here’s What People Want to Know: Why Do Journalists Tell These Stories?

Why is what happened then considered news today? Why stir up memories of events that were long ago put to rest? Hank Klibanoff, author of “The Race Beat” and managing…
September 12, 2011

In Jordan, Some Threats Against a Foreign Journalist Are Realized

After the Arab Spring, media restrictions tighten in ways unprecedented in Randa Habib’s 24 years as Agence France-Press bureau chief in Amman, and her life is threatened because of what…
September 9, 2011

The Case of the Supposedly Sealed Files—And What They Revealed

‘I continue to pore through 40,000 pages of FBI records, the entire FBI case file in the Klan’s 1964 killings of [James] Chaney, [Andrew] Goodman and [Michael] Schwerner. Two suspects…
September 9, 2011