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Nieman Fellows & Contributors in the Field

  • Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings

    Seth Mnookin. Photo by Jonathan Seitz
    "One of the things that's happening with Twitter is the whole process of what we do is being demystified. Now it's much easier to see that we don't have some secret journalistic mind control that allows us to get people to talk to us. We're just out there talking to people, or we're people who happen to be there at the right time. One way that we can increase our credibility as journalists is to become more transparent about how we're getting information."

    So said Seth Mnookin, co-director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing, during a panel discussion called "Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings" hosted by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on May 1. Mnookin was joined by Boston Globe reporter David Abel, Globe deputy managing editor for local news Jennifer Peter, WGBH radio host Callie Crossley, Washington Post director of digital content David Beard, and Boston Police public information officer Cheryl Fiandaca. James Geary, deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation, was the moderator.

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Nieman Watchdog Project

  • Public Service Work
    Margaret Engel, a longtime champion of nonprofit journalism, hopes more foundations (including small, locally based ones) will start to recognize the essential public service work of news organizations—and will realize that their communities' needs are less likely to be met if reporters aren't out there exposing them.

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