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Nieman Reports

Nieman Reports, the Nieman Foundation’s quarterly magazine about journalism, reaches a global audience in print and online at www.niemanreports.org. Founded in 1947, it features the writing and photography of journalists from around the world, many of whom are former Nieman Fellows. They draw on their experiences in the field, illuminating many of the profession’s core challenges and opportunities. Our most recent issues are:

Spring 2013: “The Signal and the Noise”
One tweeter boasted of a "game-changing victory" for crowdsourcing in the early hours of the Boston area manhunt. But what began as a low-grade fever on social media spiked with the wrongful naming of a bombing suspect. All the while, Nieman Visiting Fellow Hong Qu was testing his new tool Keepr as a screen for credibility and posting early results on Nieman Reports as the story unfolded. Qu and journalist Seth Mnookin, who tweeted live from the manhunt, write about how smartphones and their unprecedented power to publish require new journalistic tools and practices, while other Nieman Fellows consider the intersection of social media and journalism in the aftermath of the attack.
Winter 2013: “Critical Condition”
“If you are counting full-time critic jobs at newspapers, you may as well count tombstones.” That was the response of Johanna Keller, director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, to a Nieman Reports query about the number of professional critics employed at dailies around the country. The figures on newspaper critics (News flash: they're not good) are one indication of the state of criticism today, but they are not the only one
Fall 2012: “Be the Disruptor”
Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation provides a framework to understand how businesses grow, become successful, and falter as nimble start-ups muscle in on their customers. It’s a familiar story, one that has played out in the steel and auto industries, among others. Now Christensen, in collaboration with 2012 Nieman Fellow David Skok, has applied his analysis to the news industry.

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Professor’s Corner

Professor's Corner is a special online companion to Nieman Reports that focuses on journalism education. In addition to featuring articles from the current issue of Nieman Reports that relate to journalism school concerns, other elements of Professor’s Corner include: 

  • Teaching Tools links to stories culled from the pages of Nieman Reports and united by topic for classroom use.

  • Teaching Glimpses in which j-school professors describe the unique methods they use to engage with students and share links to their students’ work.