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Here are some letters and a column responding directly to articles in Nieman Reports Spring edition, a story about opportunities on line, a book review and other material on the [...]

Radical Makeover Of Boca Raton News--Success of Expensive Stagnation? When the redesigned and re vamped News of Boca Raton debuted in October 1990, Louis Heldman, an executive of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, [...]

When the national press used words like 'dangerous' and 'dishonest' in their reporting on two North Carolina election contests -- the race for governor and the charged rematch between the [...]

When Terry Martin answers the telephone at work, the pounding bass beat of loud hip-hop music reverberates in the telephone. His job, operating Hatley's Roller Rink in Monroe, N.C., is [...]

The Charlotte Observer found itself in the role of newsmaker rather than news reporter when it was revealed that Angela Wright had worked for the EEOC and could substantiate indirectly Anita Hill's sexual harassment experiences. The newspaper adopted a policy of protecting Wright and banned its own reporters from discussing her with other journalists. The paper was criticized for limiting access to a news story when one of its own practitioners is subjected to media scrutiny.

A first-time partnership between the Nieman Foundation, the University of Massachusetts-Boston [UMass Boston] Center on Media and Society, and The Boston Globe produced a two-page daily newspaper about the news [...]

Tom Winship wanted news. Over sandwiches at The Boston Globe offices on School Street, Winship pressed Curator Bob Giles for information about what was going on at Harvard. How was [...]