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Fall 2001

The Documentary and Journalism: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor
Radio and the Internet: ‘What the Hell is a Radio Documentary?’ By Stephen Smith; Radio Diarists Document Their Lives By Joe Richman; A Tape Recorder Becomes a Connecting Thread By Joshua Cutler; ‘It was just me and the recorder.’ By Cristel; Using the Web for an Interactive Documentary Project By Sue Johnson; Radio Documentaries Take Listeners Into Dark Corners Interview with David Isay; Radio Storytelling Builds Community On-Air and Off By Jay Allison; Listening to Radio Talk; First-Person Narratives on Radio Document Historic Memory By Sandy Tolan; A Festival to Celebrate Radio Documentaries By Johanna Zorn
Photography and the Written Word: Exploring the Relationship Between Photographer and Subject By Denise Keim; Photojournalism at a Crossroads By Peter Howe; Being Receptive to the Unexpected By Eli Reed; Photojournalism and Documentary Photography By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson; Documenting Democracy in America; Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina Photos by Eli Reed; A Place for Words and Images to Call Home By Robert Coles; Revealing Afghanistan By Chris Steele-Perkins; A Photographer’s Journey Begins With a Coffin By Andre Lambertson
Moving Pictures: Television and Film: A Nieman Year Spent Pondering Storytelling By Robert Drew; Documentary Journalism Vanishes From Network and Local Television By Philip S. Balboni; Remembering Documentary Moments; Striking a Balance Between Filmmaking and Journalism By Michael Kirk; Where Journalism and Television Documentary Meet By Cara Mertes; Using Documentaries to Move People to Action By Ellen Schneider; Documenting Social Ills With an Eye Toward Advocacy By Margaret Lazarus; Long-Form Documentaries Serve a Vital Journalistic Role By Robert Richter; Using the Drama of Cinéma Vérité to Tell Real Stories By Chris Hegedus; Documentary Filmmakers Decide How to Present Compelling Evidence By Michael Rabiger
Journalist’s Trade: Newspaper Cutbacks: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; A Feeling of Being Set Adrift By Thrity Umrigar; The Philadelphia Inquirer: Cuts Jeopardize Quality By Jim Naughton; When the Cheering Stops and Anger Sets In By Chuck Laszewski; Editors Need to Care About Words and Budgets By Deborah Howell; Diversity Can Be Improved During This Economic Downturn By William W. Sutton, Jr.; Ownership Guides a Newspaper’s Mission By John Morton; Newspaper Economics 2001: The McClatchy Way By Gary Pruitt; Making Change Work Away From Public Pressures By Jay Smith; Newspapers Confront a Barrage of Problems By Stephen Lacy; Working Together, Journalists Can Have a Say in Corporate Policy By Gilbert Cranberg; Prescient Words Delivered a Decade Ago By Geneva Overholser; News is Strategic in the Newspaper Business By Joseph Bower
Words & Reflections: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor
Words & Reflections: When Journalists Arrive …: A Neighbor Wonders About Her Role as a Media Source By Audrey McCollum; The Chandra Levy Story By Kim Petersen; A Bullet, a Boy, a Story, and a Reporter’s Observations By Robert Salladay; My Son Became a Voice the Media Relied on By Barbara Schardt; With Child-Care Stories, It Still Comes Down to Mothers By Barbara A. Willer; Journalists Ask Questions, Then Refuse to Answer Them By David Folkenflik; Viewer Dissatisfaction Understates the Anger at Local TV News By Ike Seamans
Words & Reflections: Books and Commentary: Silencing Voices for Racial Change During the 1950’s By Carol Polsgrove; Journalism and Myth By William F. Woo; The Evolutionary Growth of Newspapers’ Look and Feel By Warren Watson; Editorials: Pungent, Profound and Path Breaking By Nancy Day; Essays by a Mexican Journalist Explore the Americas By Dianne Solís; A Journalist Allows This Story to Speak for Itself By Wilson Wanene; He Displeased His Bosses, Not to Mention Those He Covered By John Herbers
Curator's Corner: Narrative Journalism: A New Nieman Program By Bob Giles
Nieman Notes: Nieman Fellows Take to the Road in Korea By Stefanie Friedhoff

Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina

Photos by Eli Reed

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