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In Lebanon, a bold new era for accountability journalism

The devastating blast in Beirut has spurred investigations and outrage among journalists.

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America’s first hip-hop inaugural poem ties history to the present, optimism to urgency

Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman draws on Hamilton, MLK, scripture and slavery to capture and prod America in the moment.

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Tiny News Collective aims to launch 500 new local news organizations in three years

At least half of the new newsrooms will be “based in communities that are unserved or underserved, run by founders who have historically been shut out.”

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Foundation News

Bryan Monroe remembered as “a giant of our industry, larger than life in so many good ways”

Nieman Reports is looking for a senior editor to join its staff

Bryan Monroe, 2003 Nieman Fellow and former president of NABJ, dies at 55

“Enormous energy and a nearly equal capacity for empathy”

Nieman Foundation announces the 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellows

Deb Price, business editor, pioneering gay columnist, and 2011 Nieman Fellow, dies at 62

Dale Burk, a longtime Montana journalist and a 1976 Nieman Fellow, dies at 83

Nieman Foundation announces named fellowships for the class of 2021

Nieman calls for release of jailed journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, NF ’10, in Zimbabwe

New Nieman Visiting Fellowships to focus on newsroom representation, coronavirus coverage

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How To Make J-school Matter (Again)

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Be the Disruptor

Clayton M. Christensen applies the lessons of disruptive innovation to the media

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The Gates of Harvard Yard

Pulitzer-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin on Harvard's iconic portals

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Telling True Stories

Practical craft tips on narrative nonfiction from some of America's leading journalists