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Fighting Back Against SLAPP
Primož Cirman started receiving orange, business-card-sized slips of paper in his Celje, Slovenia, mailbox in June 2020. They haven’t stopped coming. Each card is a notice that he has a piece of...
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Putting Open-Source Methods Into Practice
Open Vallejo by Geoffrey King It started with a disturbing tip: Police officers in Vallejo, California, were bending the points of their badges to mark each on-duty killing. There had long been...
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An Overdue Generational Shift Is Changing How Journalists Manage Traumatic...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee has sharp memories of her first traumatic assignment. It was 2011, and U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords had been shot in a suburban Arizona supermarket parking lot, the victim of a gunman...
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In Italy, Freelancer Collectives Are Producing Ambitious Investigations
At the end of December 2020, freelance journalists Matteo Garavoglia and Youssef Hassan Holgado spent a month-and-a-half traveling across Tunisia to report on the 10th anniversary of the Jasmine...
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Nieman Reports’ Top 5 Interviews of 2022
Over the past year, Nieman Reports has sat down with a number of people who are propelling journalism forward. From editors leading new initiatives in their newsrooms to experts strategizing solutions...
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Nieman Reports’ Most Read Stories of 2022
Our most read stories of 2022 tackle some of journalism’s most pressing issues: women and their struggles for equality in newsrooms, reframing the way we cover politics, and examining the personal...
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Nieman Reports’ Top 5 Feature Stories of 2022
This past year has been characterized by threats to democracy — and to journalism. Though many election-denying Republican candidates were defeated in the 2022 mid-term elections, former president and...
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Nieman Reports’ Top 5 Opinion Pieces of 2022
The War in Ukraine. Hurricane Ian. The fall of Roe v. Wade. The midterm elections. The continuing pandemic. The intensity and pace of the news showed no signs of slowing in 2022. Throughout the year,...
View ArticleAddressing Power Equity Issues in The News
My parents grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in East Harlem, New York City, when it was especially precarious for people living in that neighborhood. A national recession and a local fiscal crisis pushed...
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Why Climate Change Stories Need More Context
On the very first day of my “Reporting on Climate Change” class at the Harvard Extension School last August, a student asked if I had any strategies for responding to editors who say there’s not...
View ArticleInvestigating a ‘Windfall’ for Temp Agencies
Emily Corwin, NF ‘21, on how subsidies to create permanent jobs for the formerly incarcerated are doing the opposite I stopped scrolling and squinted at Harvard’s course catalog, rereading the class...
View ArticleAmid Trauma, Knowing Who Wants to Share Their Story
One week after the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, I attended a vigil for the victims. I felt it was important to arrive early to ask permission from people...
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How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story
When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent a hard-to-ignore message that extreme heat has become an...
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A Memoir for a Holocaust Survivor
For Dina Kraft, NF ’12, writing Hannah Pick-Goslar’s story was a chance to keep her memory alive When I started helping Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Anne Frank’s best friends, write her memoir earlier...
View ArticleReporting is Never Merely Reporting
When my wife and I visited New York in December, I wasn’t sure if we’d be safe on the subway, walking up and down the streets, or if it would be wiser to stick to Uber. I’m certain a major cause of my...
View ArticleA Play About Life and Death in the South
John Archibald, NF ’21, discusses his debut as a playwright I write about life in Alabama. Which means I write about death in Alabama. And issues of life and death — you might have noticed — are...
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What Happens When Candidates Avoid Mainstream News
William Bender, an investigative reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, got thrown onto covering Doug Mastriano’s campaign for governor of Pennsylvania during the 2022...
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How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story
From the assistant editor On a recent trip to Oregon, I found myself in sitting in a café with a group of Portland-area natives who were eager to enlighten a lifelong East Coaster like myself on...
View ArticleReport from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity,...
One year ago this week, Chicago Public Media announced the acquisition of The Chicago Sun-Times, a public radio station combining forces with a cherished hometown newspaper. The Chicago merger has...
View ArticlePress Freedom Community: Prioritize the Defense of Journalism that Serves the...
For 15 years until 2021, I served as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and in that capacity traveled the world to defend press freedom. I visited countless newsrooms...
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