Nieman Reports

On June 3, New York Newsday printed a Doug Marlette cartoon critical of the Pope. After a storm of protests the paper ran an apology. Responding, Marlette wrote his answer, which Newsday published June 16. Here are the cartoon, the apology and Marlette's...

For scores of Mexican newspapers, life was coming to a natural end in 1993. With the country in a recession, commercial advertising was reduced. More importantly, government advertising, which is the main source of revenue for the majority of the newspapers,...

Mercury Center Melanie Sill We start out by considering some of the reporting done around the L.A. earthquake this year in january. I think the case shows some of the things that were done that indicate what's in the future, and also tells...

Deborah Amos, correspondent for ABC's Turning Point, delivered the 13th annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture on April 7. She is a 1992 Nieman Fellow. Morris, a 1949 graduate of Harvard, was killed covering the 1979 revolution in Iran while on...

"You nuts? We are all leaving this hell. Why are you coming?" I considered the question, then made it clear to the man - he was in charge of evacuations from Kigali - that I was staying, although up to a point he was right. Political and ethnic...

I don't think that the answer to turning on the masses, which is what I do, and which is what you guys do, or hopefully we do if we're doing it right - I just don't think that they are going to get turned on by seeing the Last Action Hero hacked up...

OK, you've finished the last interview, you're back on the plane, you know how to use your laptop computer, and you're a happy reporter. You've made your peace with technology and are secure in the fact that you know how to file from your hotel room....

Aging editors with high blood pressure, low sperm counts, gray in their hair and time on their hands tend, in retirement, to get hooked on the news of the day. We always were journalism junkies, second-guessing ourselves before the first edition rolled...

Point of View Ellen Schneider POV is a series on public television. We invite independent producers and self-described independent producers from all over the country to submit their work. We look at close to 500 pieces annually. And it's...

Like most written efforts, The APME Declaration of Ethics needs editing. Because of its length, there is too much room for preaching when simple declaring would have sufficed. As an editor and journalist, I need to be reminded of my obligation to be...

There is a wonderful array of exciting possibilities in the development of new electronic media. There is the promise of a technology that can make more information and debate available to the public, that can liberate reporters to do more effective...

Katherine Fulton This panel is called a panel on training in the broadest sense. What does it take to be a journalist in the world that is being created? Tom Johnson is both a working reporter as well as somebody who has taught journalism and...

Kathryn Montgomery This past January I flew out to Los Angeles to attend the information superhighway summit, where Vice-President Gore addressed the television industry at UCLA. It was kind of a scene to see it sort of overrun by all these Hollywood...