Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Vol. 53 No. 4 Winter 1999
Vol. 54 No. 1 Spring 2000
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' ... to promote and elevate the standards of journalism' -- Agnes Wahl Nieman

A selection of outstanding writing published in Nieman Reports during the last half of the 20th Century
Table of Contents
Page Author/Part Title Yr. Published
4 Curator's Corner The Roots of Our Responsibility 2000
6 Journalism
7 Louis M. Lyons A Free and Responsible Press 1947
7 The Hutchins Report Freedom for What? 1947
12 The Hutchins Report Press Reaction 1947
13 Douglass Cater The Captive Press 1950
17 Edward A. Walsh How Best Prepare for Newspaper Work? 1951
18 Evan Hill Handouts to the Country Editor 1954
19 Thomas Griffith The Pursuit of Journalism 1959
24 Walter Lippmann Birthday Address to the National Press Club 1959
27 Anthony Lewis Newspapermen and Lawyers 1960
28 Archibald MacLeish The Catholic Issue 1960
30 James W. Markham Are We the Best Informed Nation? 1961
32 Edwin A. Lahey For That Hole in the Forms 1963
34 Harry S. Ashmore Asking Rude Questions 1960
35 Louis M. Lyons Calvin Coolidge and the Press 1964
37 Harry S. Ashmore Custodians of the City 1966
39 Alden Whitman Uphill All the Way 1978
40 Peggy A. Simpson Covering the Women's Movement 1979
40 Herbert Kupferberg The Xerox and the Pentagon 1971
42 Jerome Aumente Yes Virginia, There Is an Agnes 1979
46 Eugene C. Patterson Press Performance: Enough Is Too Little 1983
47 Sam Zagoria The Us-First Syndrome 1986
48 Ted Koppel Standards and Principles 1986
49 James S. Doyle Has Money Corrupted Washington Journalism? 1989
52 Bill Kovach The Impact of Public Opinion Polls 1990
55 Ann Marie Lipinski Investigators' Checklist 1991
57 Murrey Marder Operation Washington Shield 1991
63 Anthony DeCurtis Popular Music 1992
66 Murray Seeger The Old and Future Labor Beat 1994
69 Alex S. Jones Feasting on the Seed Corn 1996
73 Carole Kneeland A Grueling Standard to Live By 1996
75 Melanie Sill Needed: Long-Haul Commitment 1996
78 Murrey Marder This Is Watchdog Journalism 1998
79 John Schwartz Making Sense Out of a Tragedy 1998
81 Carol Napolitano Using Education Data to Build a Story's Foundation 1999
84 First Amendment
85 Anthony Lewis The New Reality 1980
88 Eugene Roberts A Supreme Court Decision Fosters Litigation 1990
91 Nieman Photographers The Bill of Rights in Pictures 1991
98 Objectivity
99 John L. Hulteng Backdoor Editorializing 1950
99 David Manning White The Cult of Incredibility 1952
101 Wallace Carroll The Seven Deadly Virtues 1955
102 Wallace Carroll Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour 1970
104 Wes Gallagher The NewsmanSociety's Lonesome End 1968
104 Wes Gallagher A Case for the Professional 1971
106 Eric Sevareid The Quest for Objectivity 1970
106 Lawrence Schneider White Newsman and Black Critics 1971
110 Lou Ureneck Expert Journalism 1994
116 Watchdog Conference The Role of Reporters' Judgment 1999
118 Sources
119 Alfred Friendly Attribution of News 1958
121 Clark R. Mollenhoff Weighing Sources Anonymous and Otherwise 1981
123 Gene Foreman Confidential Sources: Testing the Readers' Confidence 1984
126 Howard Simons CIA Rarely Tells the Press What it Wants to Know 1986
128 Watchdog Conference Reporters' Relationships With Sources 1999
131 Watchdog Conference When Reporters are Shut Out By Sources 1999
132 Race
133 Hodding Carter The Southern Revolt 1948
135 Harry S. Ashmore The South and the South's Problem 1948
136 Simeon Booker A Negro Reporter at the Till Trial 1956
138 John Herbers The Reporter in the Deep South 1962
141 John Alfred Hamilton Prince Edward's 'Massive Resistance' 1962
144 Philip E. Meyer A Newspaper's Role Between the Riots 1968
147 J. Anthony Lukas Covering the Real Politics 1978
149 Robert C. Maynard Nonwhite America: The 'Unseen Environment' 1979
151 Harold Jackson We Weren't Listening 1992
153 Lester Sloan Roy DeCarava Retrospective 1998
154 Electronic Media
155 Lowell M. Limpus The Newspaperman Meets Television 1949
157 John S. Hayes How Can Newspapers Meet Competition of Radio and Television? 1951
158 Al Capp Al Capp Views the Networks 1952
159 Malcolm Muggeridge The Square Eye vs. the Written Word 1959
161 Richard L. Strout LBJ Should Hold Formal Conferences 1966
162 Fred Friendly A Conversation 1981
167 Michael J. O'Neill Media Power and the Dangers of Mass Information 1985
169 Katherine Fulton A New Agenda for Journalism 1994
174 Photography
175 Joseph Costa Does Press Freedom Include Photography? 1952
177 Steve Northup Words on Pictures 1974
180 Bill Welch Fragile Moments 1982
182 Michele McDonald Photo Essay 1998
185 Beatriz Terrazas Using the Camera to Peer Inside 1999
186 International News
187 Henry Tanner Congo: Reporter's Nightmare 1961
189 John Kenneth Galbraith Why Diplomats Clam Up 1964
191 Peter Arnett Reflections on Vietnam, the Press and America 1972
193 David Lamb Endangered Species 1982
194 James C. Thomson, Jr. China Reporting Revisited 1983
195 Walter Sullivan The Crucial 1940's 1983
197 M.G.G. Pillai Freedom of the Press 1983
199 Dennis Pather In Memoriam: Percy Qoboza 1988
202 Nieman Fellows Letters About Qoboza's Imprisonment 1978
204 Sarah Lubman China and the Foreign Press 1992
208 Raymundo Riva Palacio The Kept Mexican Press 1992
211 Sylvia Poggioli Scouts Without Compasses 1993
215 Ann K. Cooper What Happens When the Cameras Leave? 1997
218 Bryan Rich One David, Two Goliaths 1997
220 Mathatha Tsedu Questioning If Guilt Without Punishment Will Lead to Reconciliation 1998
221 Chris Hedges In Yugoslavia, the Consequences of Not Reporting the Truth 1999
223 Yevgenia Albats Reporting Stories in Russia That No One Will Publish 1999

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