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Local Reporting Builds a Community’s ‘Social Capital’

‘Community journalism assumes its value in finding ways to connect people—by identifying passions and concerns they share, linking neighbor to neighbor, and motivating people to act.’
June 15, 2011

Remembering James H. McCartney

Rick Smith, a longtime friend of James H. McCartney, NF ’64, delivered this eulogy at a memorial service in early June at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.When I…
June 10, 2011

Summer 2011: Introduction

In digital space, journalists are proving to be a powerful force in creating, nurturing and engaging communities. No longer serving only geographic zones, they confront the fragmentation of audience and the need to attract and…
June 10, 2011

Summer 2011: Class Notes

1964James H. McCartney, a longtime Washington correspondent and columnist who specialized in foreign affairs and defense policy, died at his home in Florida on May 6th from cancer. He was…
June 10, 2011

Feeling the Embrace of Her Nieman Family

D. Parvaz, freed in May after 19 days of captivity in Syria and then Iran, wrote a postscript to the accompanying essay, which she had written before her detention.RELATED ARTICLE“Landing…
June 9, 2011

Steve Weinberg: Connections and Disclosures

RELATED ARTICLE“The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists”-Steve WeinbergIn 1989, Little, Brown and Company published my biography of industrialist Armand Hammer, and then Hammer sued me for defamation, as we knew…
June 9, 2011

A Failing Newsroom—Described With a Novelist’s Touch

Tom Rachman ‘is telling this story at a perfect time as newspapers shed staff and costs and, in some cases, shut down their presses altogether.’
June 9, 2011

Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker

A novelist turned biographer places ‘[Marshall] McLuhan’s maddeningly difficult ideas in a recognizably human context.’
June 9, 2011

Health Draws a Community Together Online

‘A new mindset emerged as the site’s gates swung open to community involvement. Now, community members are part of what we do every step along the way—and we are progressing…
June 9, 2011

What Football Pep Talks Taught Hyperlocal Reporters

‘Inestimable value comes out of making a human connection visible through something as ordinary as a half-time pep talk by a coach to his players.’
June 9, 2011