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The heavy rain had been pounding for three days straight. I peered through the raindrops running down my window as  streaks of lightning crackled and thunder echoed in the distance above the mou...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/after-the-flood/

I became a journalist in 2009 for one reason: I wanted to focus my work in a field that promoted social justice. Prior to that, I was working in technology, a much more lucrative field given the ...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/standing-up-to-corruption-and-violence/

Ten years ago, AP photographer Anya Niedringhaus died in Afghanistan, shot dead in her car by a fanatical police officer who also badly wounded her close friend, AP journalist Kathy Gannon. Killi...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/with-dozens-dead-and-more-wounded-journalists-in-gaza-have-faced-deadliest-six-months-ever-recorded/

As one of the world’s leading experts on media manipulation and disinformation, Joan Donovan studies the darker side of the internet — online threats, conspiracy theories, extremist rhetoric,...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/social-media-is-a-crime-scene/

Cameron McWhirter, NF ’07, on the reporting behind the book “American Gun”  Zusha Elinson and I are reporters for The Wall Street Journal. He works out of San Francisco; I work out of Atla...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/a-history-of-the-ar-15/

Olivera Perkins, NF ’08, is redefining the economics beat at Signal Cleveland Chillingly high inflation was still in effect when Signal Cleveland, the nonprofit news organization, went online i...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/spotlighting-underserved-communities-in-ohio/

What makes Steve Stadelman, an Illinois state senator, so concerned about local news? It’s not just his 25-year career in local broadcast media, which he left to enter politics in 2013. Stadelm...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/in-illinois-two-bills-aim-to-put-reporters-back-into-communities/

My college roommate gets her news from a talking fish on TikTok. And she’s not the only one. The “Talking Fish News” has 325,000 followers, and it is one of many accounts playing off of the...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/want-to-reach-gen-z-prioritize-young-voices/

“Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany“ (Columbia University Press, March 2024) tells the story of how the largest news wire serving American newspapers covered the Nazis...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/the-story-behind-the-execution-of-ap-reporter-joseph-martin-during-ww2/

In January 2024, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from her Los Angeles home to the California-Mexico border town of Jacumba. The month before, U.S. law enforcement ha...

https://niemanreports.org/articles/a-moment-of-deep-sorrow-on-the-u-s-mexican-border/