When one thinks of how an ambassador’s career gets started, a rocky beach and seagulls don’t likely come to mind. But this is how Smith Hempstone, a former Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Times and 1965 Nieman Fellow, says he first … Read more
Cameron McWhirter, NF ’07, on the reporting behind the book “American Gun” Zusha Elinson and I are reporters for The Wall Street Journal. He works out of San Francisco; I work out of Atlanta. We’ve covered a lot of mass … Read more
Social media and the ways journalists use it are facing a legal reckoning in the courts. This reckoning is easy to miss. We’re accustomed to a seemingly never-ending stream of news and commentary about internet regulation, powerful companies like Meta … Read more
Part of Izzy Gutierrez’s job as an intern at Nashville TV station WSMV was to produce peppy Instagram reels about what happens behind the scenes at the station’s lifestyle show, Today in Nashville. There was Gutierrez getting ready for … Read more
I was done. Absolutely done with writing, and especially done with writing books. This was in 2008, and I had just finished my book “Rin Tin Tin.” It was a story of the most famous dog in Hollywood, and it … Read more
The past year has been a difficult one for a free and independent press. An unprecedented number of journalists and other media workers have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas. A Wall Street Journal reporter was imprisoned … Read more
Anyone who’s spent any time in the journalism industry has heard these statistics over and over: About 2,500 newspapers have shuttered in the past two decades. One-fifth of Americans live in a news desert. Several major outlets have laid off … Read more
In late November, Ravish Kumar, one of India’s leading broadcast journalists, resigned from his job as senior executive editor of New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), the last influential network still willing to cover Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government … Read more
When Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White found out last year that ByteDance, the controversial China-based firm that runs the video-sharing platform TikTok, had used the app to track her whereabouts as she covered the company, she knew she was … Read more
