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Women Under Siege
During conflicts in Guatemala, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere, rape and other forms of sexual violence have been used as a weapon. Women Under Siege, a new project of the nonprofit Women’s Media Center, aims to document the incidence of such violence and push for prevention efforts. The initiative presents case studies on several countries and first-person accounts from survivors of sexual violence, both civilians and journalists.
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Keep Calm, Read On
Bloomberg BusinessWeek screams “Amazon Wants to Burn the Book Business.” The New York Times declares Barnes & Noble “The Bookstore’s Last Stand.” Amid the apocalyptic chatter, PublicAffairs founder Peter Osnos has optimism about the future of books and the age of the e-reader, when “people know they can get the book they want when they want it.” But it’s more than just convenience, as Kindle Chronicles podcaster Len Edgerly writes: “I feel closer to the author when I read his or her work in an e-book.”
More about “Transformations in Publishing” »
‘The Face That Stays with Me’
In the 31st Joe Alex Morris, Jr. Lecture at the Nieman Foundation, “Today” show co-anchor Ann Curry said the face that stays with her from reporting overseas is that of a young woman who was gang-raped and left for dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The woman was still in the hospital two years later when Curry interviewed her. After the story aired, the phones lit up with calls from viewers who wanted to know how to help, she said.
Curry on PTSD, foreign reporting »

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In this Issue: Writing the Book

Brief Story, Book Proposal, a Longer Feature, Then a Book
By Amy Ellis Nutt
A Year of Reinvention
By Alfredo Corchado
Tips for Journalists Writing Memoirs
By Michele Weldon

Nieman Fellows & Contributors in the Field

Leading a Public TV Station in Bogotá
Hollman Morris, NF ’11, is returning to Colombia to become director of Bogotá’s public television station, Canal Capital. Discussing his new job with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, Morris said he wants to provide television that is “in the service of the people … that is popular and shows that television in Latin America isn’t only about distraction, but an instrument for development.” A documentary filmmaker and broadcast journalist, Morris last year wrote that “the desire to return—so common in those like me who have left Colombia because of persecution—stays with me.”
Never Stop Digging
Stanley Nelson has won the 2011 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky. Nelson, editor of the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, Louisiana, investigated the unsolved murder of Frank Morris, a black man who was killed in 1964 after the Ku Klux Klan burned down his business. His work implicated a new suspect though a grand jury has yet to return an indictment and earned him a finalist spot for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

Professor's Corner

The Road to New Media

Two new essays on Professor’s Corner offer insights into the changing media landscape students will face. University of Nebraska professor Sue Burzynski Bullard writes about teaching students to include links in their articles and offers resources for teaching linking. And University of Arkansas professor Gerald B. Jordan takes the temperature of a newsroom in transition at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he works during summer breaks.

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Recent Issues

Old Meets New

A Milestone Anniversary

Nieman Reports turns 65 this month, and to celebrate we’re looking back at our first issue from February 1947 and the lead story, “What’s Wrong With the Newspaper Reader.” In it, Newsweek reporter William J. Miller, NF ’41, looks at that still-contemplated topic, “the sad state of the nation’s press.”