The audacity of the Belarusian diversion of an international flight in order to arrest a dissident journalist rightly drew global headlines and global condemnation this week. But it’s not exactly news that President Aleksandr Lukashenko will go to ruthless lengths … Read more
The pandemic brought out the very best in my teammates. I’m the director of photo/video at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Throughout my 22 years at the paper, I’ve observed plenty of stellar photojournalism. But this past year was different. Read more
I started the video at about 5:01 and just let it play, as part of my Exploring Fake News journalism class at Davidson College this past semester. The video was captured on the bodycam worn by the … Read more
In March, when a man shot and killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, across three different spas in the Atlanta area, one thing quickly became clear: the mainstream press wasn’t equipped to cover the news in the … Read more
Jasmine Brown, a 2020 Nieman Fellow and a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, on maintaining her faith in journalism through the struggles of the past year. One of my primary beliefs as a journalist is that I work to shed light … Read more
I asked a friend the other day if he was eager to get back to the newsroom we once shared. The publisher has indicated that the doors will reopen as soon as midsummer, with people returning for staggered shifts. My … Read more
Shaheen Pasha, a 2018 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on starting the Prison Journalism Project and training incarcerated writers to tell stories about their prison community. The first thing I noticed was the dirty plexiglass as I entered the visiting room … Read more
George Floyd was alive the last time my newsroom was open. Think about that. So were a half million Americans and three-plus million citizens of the world, now lost to the plague of covid-19. Donald Trump was president, the news … Read more
