What It’s Like To Be a Breastfeeding Journalist
A survey for Poynter on the family-friendliness of newsrooms found that nearly a third of respondents said their workplace was unsupportive of breastfeeding, which indicates the industry has work to...
View ArticleViolence at Home and Abroad
On a sunny Friday in May, a sweetly solemn ceremony unfolded on the grounds of Harvard’s Lippmann House as Nieman Fellows gathered for a class reunion. Missing was Anja Niedringhaus, a treasured...
View ArticleWhat Anthony Shadid Teaches Us Still: Rami G. Khouri, NF ’02, is studying the...
In life and death alike, Anthony Shadid was repeatedly recognized by his peers as among the finest foreign correspondents of his generation. To examine his legacy and share it with journalism students...
View ArticleCovering a Collapsing Nation
Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources, fertile land, and the largest oil reserves in the world—more than Saudi Arabia. Once a regional powerhouse and preferred destination for tourists,...
View Article“The uncertainty is what kills”
Translated by Dick Cluster. Leer en español. It’s strange how severely shaken my way of life and that of many Mexican journalists has been since the declaration of the poorly named “war on drugs” in...
View Article“La Incertidumbre es lo Que Matanzas”
Read in English. Es extraño cómo mi vida y la de muchos periodistas mexicanos ha sido trastocada desde que en nuestro país comenzó la mal llamada “guerra contra las drogas”, y desde que se dispararon...
View Article“They’ll only kill you if the denial of revenue does not bring you down”
The first tactic the people hoarding money, power, and secrets will try is to befriend you. You join their side; they join yours. Everyone benefits. Perhaps you gain a new advertiser and the unpleasant...
View ArticleGetting Racial Nuance Right after Charlottesville
An “AP Explains” piece illustrates just how difficult it is to get racial nuance right in the Trump era, even when journalists set out to bring much needed context to maybe the most vexing issue we...
View Article“Charlottesville is a reminder to us … that we have to ramp up our game”
As the violence unfolded in Charlottesville over the weekend, many journalists scrambled, trying not to explain just the violent clashes but identify the participants and detail the white nationalist...
View ArticleOne of a Kind: In creating a one night-only live magazine, Florence...
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in October 2013, I entered a conference hall at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge to attend a roundtable that was part of the Nieman Foundation’s 75th anniversary celebration...
View ArticleSeeking a way to get more personal without getting less objective
While on assignment in Somalia a few years back, I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the Mogadishu mayor’s office alongside a dozen Somali men—some in white robes, some in baggy suits. One of...
View Article“Presenting a More Balanced and Nuanced View of Black Life”
The very first time I viewed a William H. Johnson painting, the work moved me so deeply, I immediately declared him my favorite artist. I was barely a teenager. I didn’t have a sophisticated, refined...
View ArticleCovering Climate Change, with Urgency and Creativity
The assignment was simple: find out what energy companies knew about climate change, and when they knew it. InsideClimate News (ICN) reporter Neela Banerjee was initially skeptical they’d find any...
View ArticleEn México, los periodistas son silenciados por la tortura
Read in English. Existen zonas de México donde la mayoría de los reporteros han sido silenciados a base de torturas. La primera vez que me enteré de ese dato fue leyendo reportes de organizaciones...
View ArticleIn Mexico, Journalists Are Silenced by Torture
(Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster. Leer en español.) In some parts of Mexico, the majority of reporters have been silenced by means of torture. I first learned about this by reading the...
View ArticleThe Trauma of Covering Traumatic Events
I had increasingly intense visions of harming my wife. That’s not quite right. I had been having off-and-on images of violent events for years—seeing myself raped in prison or impaled during car...
View Article“A podcast every day for three weeks straight”: After covering the Tour de...
The work of a print journalist can be very unrewarding. When I worked for a magazine, writing a piece could take several weeks. The potential audience was 100,000. Often, this is the response: 15 likes...
View ArticleHow CALmatters Is Finding Audiences for Statehouse Coverage
Two years ago CALmatters, a nonprofit news organization, launched with four reporters and 40 media partners because we saw a pressing need for statewide explanatory journalism as well as commentary and...
View ArticleAdvice for Editors and Producers Developing Disaster Coverage Plans
On September 19, as Hurricane Maria gathered strength and Puerto Ricans took shelter, bracing for the worst, a team of NBC News reporters whose social media accounts suggest they’re based in Pasadena,...
View ArticleDead Bodies, Nationality, and the “Newsworthy” Image
In “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead,” being published November 21 by NYU Press, social scientist Jessica M. Fishman probes a double standard in the U.S. media regarding...
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