Nieman Reports

Ghosts Speaking Across the Page

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

From Twitter to Gellhorn via Mexico

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Three Nieman Visiting Fellows undertake diverse short-term projects during 2013

Bolivia by Bus

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08, and his daily newspaper went off the map to rediscover their own country

“They Promised to Take Our Land, and They Took It”

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Waiting it Out in Kings Tavern

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Dave McNeely, NF ’76, on the Emmy Award-winning Larry L. King, NF ’70, co-writer of the hit Broadway musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”

“Get This Boy in Our Stable”

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Dan Wakefield, NF ’64, edited and annotated the recently published “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.” Here he reflects on first meeting Vonnegut during his Nieman year and the impact the resulting friendship had on his own writing career

“The End is Inevitable, But Not Predictable”

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, remembers Stanley Karnow, NF ’58

Class Notes

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Identity and Integrity

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Should a reporter ever be off duty?

What Happened in Qubair

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Deborah Amos, NF ’92, on covering a massacre in a central Syrian farming village

No Such Thing as “Foreign” Anymore

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Maria Balinska, NF ’10, on why it’s time to mash up local and global news

Control Information, Control Souls

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Yu Gao, deputy managing editor of Caixin Media and affiliate of 2013 Nieman Fellow Jin Deng, on how Chinese media censorship works

Can’t Live with ’em, Can’t Live without ’em

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How big telecoms firms put a chokehold on America’s communication pipelines—and what should be done about it

Tricks of the Trade

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Undercover reporting fell out of favor in the 1970s but is it worth another look?

What We Talk About When We Talk About War

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

War correspondent Kevin Sites explores what happens to veterans who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq

Southern Exposure

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How three Niemans drove coverage of the civil rights movement

“Truth Is Not About What the Majority Believes”

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris on how we are all error-generating machines

It Can’t Happen Here

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Why is there so little coverage of Americans who are struggling with poverty?

'Speaking From Beneath the Sea'

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Reporting from America’s Silent Spaces

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Sandy Close, recipient of the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal, has made a career out of helping ethnic communities and the dispossessed tell their own stories

Select, Shape, Celebrate

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The critic’s calling is to elevate the good and ignore the bad

The Illumination Business

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Why drama critics must look at and look after the theater

But Is It Art?

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

How the roles of curator and critic can be complementary rather than combative

Minimize Description, Maximize Observation

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Pulitzer-winner Blair Kamin schools Harvard students in the art of architecture criticism

The Reviewer Reviewed

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

A critic-turned-novelest explores the borders between journalism and fiction

Consumer Retorts

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

When everybody’s a critic, what’s the role of a professional reviewer?

Concision and Clarity

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Robert Christgau reflects on the art of writing well about music

Critical Condition

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

“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. Read more …