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1978: Covering the Real Politics

Busing students to Hyde Park (Boston) High School in 1974. Photo by Paul Connell, courtesy of The Boston Globe.[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1978 issue of Nieman Reports.]…I…

The Roots of Our Responsibility

The American press was halfway through the century just ended before journalists began to talk seriously about press responsibility. A letter Henry Luce wrote to Robert Hutchins, President of the…

Naming Sources

Increasingly reporters cite anonymous sources rather than provide readers, viewers and listeners with actual names. At this conference, journalists, whose work demonstrates how information was gathered from sources who agreed…

Media’s Role in Changing the Face of Poverty

A Scholar Examines the Convergence of Race and Welfare in the Media.

A Woman at Odds With Her Times

Charlotte Curtis is portrayed as a controversial pioneer in journalism.

The Inestimable Value of Family Ownership

As corporate newspaper ownership increases, independent decision-making is lost.

Is ‘New Media’ Really New?

For news agency reporters, technology changes but not how the job is done.

Can Anybody Find News Here?

In Hyannis Port, nobody could. But ‘news’ was delivered, anyway.

The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health

Nurses’ experience and research is vital to, but absent from, these stories.

Reporters’ Relationships With Sources

No topic consumed as much of the conversation at the Watchdog conference as that of reporters’ relationships with sources. How are these relationships established? How can and should they be…