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Tugging Meaning Out of Trauma

‘The journalists, by telling the survivors’ stories, are a witness to the witness and they bring that story to the larger society.’

Trauma in New Orleans: In the Wake of Katrina

Journalists and a poet explore this story’s intimacy, its emotional power, and its cultural significance.

Connecting Threads of Individual Pain With Societal Responsibility

From Northern Ireland, Chile and Kosovo come stories of the struggle people have in healing from terror and torture when political accountability and reconciliation are absent.

When a Crime Is Just the Beginning of the Story

By establishing relationships of trust with those touched by crime, reportiers discover and imtimacy of throught and emotion that can assist healing—for individuals and for communities.

It Matters Who Tells the Story in the Middle East

‘The deliberate or unconscious dehumanization of Arabs is also reflected in the way they are portrayed on television. … selective images confirm the stereotype that Arabs are inherently violent.’

Manipulator or Human Rights Facilitator? (Extended)

An extended, online-only version of Antjie Krog's "Manipulator or Human Rights Facilitator?"

Art and Literature: Guiding Journalists in Trauma’s Portrayal

‘… Nieman Fellows who’d been in the Balkans wanted to take courses in music, art, poetry, and other kinds of literature. I don’t think this happens arbitrarily.’

Two Opposing Viewpoints—and Responses—on ‘Spies’ and I.F. Stone

To the Editor:The review published in the Fall 2009 issue of Nieman Reports of “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America,” by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr…

Taking Issue with Jerry Kammer’s ‘Struggle to Be Heard’ on Immigration

To the Editor:I’m writing to set the record straight and correct some troubling misperceptions created by Jerry Kammer’s article, “An Opposing Viewpoint: The Struggle to Be Heard,” printed in the…

Bringing the Wit and Wisdom of Molly Ivins to the Stage

Two journalists turned playwrights mine a mother lode of material in the writings of the acerbic political observer.