Archive: Dec 2005

Political Journalism: It’s Not the Good Old Days

By David Yepsen• Opinion• December 15, 2005

‘But some of what ails American political journalism in our time is an overreaction to the failures of the boys back in Witcover’s heyday.’ Read more

Childhood Experiences Shape a Reporter’s Journey

By Lester Sloan• Opinion• December 15, 2005

‘The great writers he’d discovered in the library at the orphanage became midwives to his talent.’ Read more

The Role Women Journalists Played in Poland’s Freedom

By Peggy Simpson• Opinion• December 15, 2005

Only when Solidarity won did the journalists realize ‘… they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.’ Read more

The Life and Times of Foreign Correspondents in Russia

By Alvin Shuster• Opinion• December 15, 2005

A book explores the work of covering Russia through the experiences and words of those reporters who did it. Read more

Photojournalism Students Cover Hurricane Katrina in Their First Leap Into a Real-World Crisis

By Eli Reed• Nieman Notes• December 15, 2005

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’ Read more

Observing Those Who Observe

By Daniel Grossman• Opinion• December 1, 2005

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’ Read more