When the Granite State News Collaborative launched in 2018, director Melanie Plenda hoped that she could find organizations to partner with. “It was so new and such a new concept,” Plenda said, thinking back to the organization’s early days. Read more
N ieman Reports was founded as a quarterly print magazine by a group of Nieman alumni in February of 1947 with this mission statement: “It has no pattern, formula or policy except to seek to serve the purpose of the Nieman Foundation ‘to promote standards of journalism … Read more
Before I discuss news coverage of a 10-year-old rape victim whose story became a political football, there are a few things I want you to consider: Women and girls who become pregnant as a result of a rape don’t automatically … Read more
From a distance, and on paper, Ghana is a thriving democracy in a region beset with political and social turmoil. The country’s 1992 constitution has an entire chapter dedicated to freedom of the press, and three years ago on March … Read more
Since 2017, journalists from eight newsrooms in five African countries have partnered with Code for Africa (CfA), a network of civic democracy and data journalism labs, to create sensors.Africa, a project that puts air quality sensors at schools, … Read more
The future of our democracy is being written in state legislatures across the country. They were the focus of coordinated efforts to undermine the 2020 election results, and now, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case based … Read more
Jenifer McKim, NF ’08, and Phillip Martin, NF ’98, detail their groundbreaking series, ‘Unseen’ We have reported on the dangerous and troubling world of sex trafficking for nearly two decades, writing about the domestic sex trafficking of … Read more
On Nov. 21, 2021, my colleague at investigative news magazine Frontier Myanmar, Zar, wiped her laptop and phone of all data and packed them into a single bag with a few other belongings, then headed for Yangon International … Read more
Every time a reporter is killed, his or her death explodes in the hearts of the country’s other journalists — like an earthquake with expanding effect. It doesn’t matter whether they knew the victim or not. Each murder … Read more
If I asked you to name a country where press freedom has grown stronger in recent years, could you? How about countries where press freedom is increasingly under attack? If you’re still struggling with the … Read more
