It’s a shame that headlines for straight-news stories about the stalled stimulus talks between Congress and the White House didn’t plainly say this before the issue was swamped by coverage of the major political conventions: “Democrats want to send American … Read more
“They say [the] Vietnam War was the first television war,” said BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. “Syria was the first social media war.” Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, Syria’s peaceful uprisings devolved into … Read more
Last summer I found myself at the M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge in Jackson, Mississippi. Considered “the epicenter of the civil rights movement,” the well-worn building was once the training site for the Freedom Riders and … Read more
I used to be the king of the N-S-A: No. Strings. Attached. I was single. I had no children. And I was a renter. When the discount plane fare to Japan arrived in my inbox, I flew to Tokyo on … Read more
Photojournalist Juan Arredondo, a 2019 Nieman Fellow, who covered race protests in New York City this summer: “This scene resonated with me because I thought, what a moment to be growing up as a Black boy. Read more
In a new Shorenstein Center report, “Conveying Truth: Independent Media in Putin’s Russia,” Ann Cooper, a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein fellow, describes the origins and evolution of independent media in Russia from the late Soviet era to … Read more
When Jean Ronald Saint Preux started live-streaming on Facebook, the police had already smashed his driver seat window. On a clear day, May 20th, in the parking lot of the town hall of Albany, a … Read more
Nieman curator Howard Simons used to tease our class of ’77 about the number of members who abandoned journalism. Mel Goo became a lawyer; Dolly Katz, an epidemiologist. Al Larkin stayed at The Boston Globe, but switched to the business … Read more
The reporters were used to getting stonewalled by the administration, but now the protesters demanding change were also shutting them out. One news organization, determined to tell the protesters’ stories, struck a deal: reporters would not identify the protesters or … Read more
Shooting a glance at the uncanny paraphernalia on my desk feels like watching a “Breaking Bad” teaser: A fist-sized rock near my monitor, a half-burnt tear gas canister on the rock, holding a pen, and a handwritten letter from a … Read more
