Nieman Reports
Professors' Corner
Welcome to Professors' Corner, where we will bring you teaching resources
from the issues of Nieman Reports. Over time, we hope this corner of the Web will become a place you return to often as you look for ways to enhance the classroom experience of your journalism students.
If you use an article from Nieman Reports with your students and it works well to support your teaching, please let us know and we'll post the article to Professors' Corner for others to use.
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November
2007
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Teaching Journalism in the Digital Age
In our Winter 2006 issue, Goodbye Gutenberg, journalists described the ways in which digital technology affects their work, and adjustments being made within newsrooms were front and center. What wasn’t explored was how those who want to be journalists are being educated and trained to take on vastly different roles than those once assumed – or studied about – by faculty now teaching them. In our Fall 2007 issue, journalism school deans and educators wrote about what is happening – and what needs to happen – in classrooms to prepare future journalists for the demands of the digital age.
Nieman Reports is providing links to this collection of articles.
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• New Teaching Journalism in the Digital Age (532 KB)
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Read the Fall 2007 Issue Online
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February
2007
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Nieman Reports and Society for Environmental Journalists: Global Warming Coverage
In the Winter 2005 issue of Nieman Reports, journalists wrote about their experiences in reporting on global warming. In doing so, they addressed some key issues that would seem to be of great interest to journalism students. Among them is the inherent tension between an impulse to strive for "balanced" news coverage and the responsibility of being scientifically accurate. With global warming stories being prominent in daily news coverage, this seems a good time for students to read what experienced reporters—and several professors—have to say about ways to approach the telling of these stories.
Nieman Reports is also providing a link to a special reporters' resource on the Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Web site called, "Climate Change: A Guide to the Information and Disinformation."
Read SEJ's "Climate Change" resource
Download Global Warming eMprint Newsbook
Global Warming with multimedia (2.3 MB)
Global Warming without multimedia (804 KB)
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Read Winter 2005 Issue
Download the entire Winter 2005 issue (5.8 MB)
Select an article from the Winter 2005 Table of Contents (pdf)
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October
2006
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Essays About 'The Elements of Style'
This abridged special issue of Nieman Reports has essays from 19 journalists about the nine principles that form the foundation of "The Elements of Journalism." It is a valuable resource for students in basic writing and editing courses, as well as in seminars that explore theories of journalism and the role of the press in society.
Download the issue in eMprint Newsbook format
eMprint Newsbooks are designed for downloading to your computer and reading offline. To download, right click on the link (control+click for Macs) and choose Save or Download. eMprint newsbooks require Version 6.0 or later of the free QuickTime Player and Adobe Acrobat or the free Acrobat Reader.
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