Recently added articles from Nieman Reports:

Wartime and the Nieman Foundation: Harvard's archives reveal the story of the first Nieman Fellow to die while working as a war correspondent.(Curator's Corner)(John Brigham Terry)

Jun 22, 2008; Giles, Bob ... Nieman Fellows visiting Harvard's Memorial Church often wonder about the last name engraved on the church's south wall, listing those who died in World War II: "John Brigham Terry, Lucius W. Nieman Fellow." It had been a bit of a mystery to us at the foundation as well, until ...

Politics and the new media.

Jun 22, 2008 ... When "Stories About Campaign Coverage: From BlackBerries and the Web to Images and Ideas" appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Nieman Reports, its opening words belonged to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Executive Editor David M. Shribman. In excerpts from a book chapter he'd written entitled, ...

Don't fear Twitter: using moment-by-moment observations, 'Twitter entries build a community of readers who find their way to longer articles....'.(Politics and the New Media)(Website overview)

Jun 22, 2008; Dickerson, John ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If I were cleverer, this piece on Twitter and journalism would fit in Twitter's 140-character limitation. The beauty of Twitter when properly used--by both the reader and the writer--is that everyone knows what it is. No reader expects more from Twitter ...

Only the reader sleeps: as political coverage meets the insatiable Web, 'reporters and editors have less and less time and more and more responsibilities to file, and to keep filing.'.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Phillips, Kate ... In early January, I sat in an airport hangar in Manchester, New Hampshire, waiting for Senator Hillary Clinton to emerge the morning after her loss in Iowa. My toes were numb from the frigid cold outside where we had waited while the Secret Service swept the building. But my hands were ...

Adding radio and video Web casts to political news in print: '... am I becoming the first correspondent in my paper's history who has no time to think?'.(Politics and the New Media)(Essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Mykkanen, Pekka ... It is not easy to do anything for the first time when working for a newspaper founded in 1889. The more I think about the long history of my paper, Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily in Finland, the more privileged I feel about being its correspondent covering the 2008 U.S. presidential ...

It's an online world for young people and political news.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Seitz, Jonathan ... Why are young people turning away from the mainstream media? And where are they going to get their political news and information? To respond to the first question, I guess I'd have to say Jon Stewart is to blame. He is, after all, the voice of confidence for my generation, ...

Young reporters, new tools, and political reporting: at MTV, the 51 members of Street Team '08 are experimenting with format, content and distribution as they find stories to tell to a youthful audience.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Nord, Liz ... Music videos have long been what most people associated with MTV, but early on we realized our audience was passionate about a wide variety of social issues. To connect with them, covering the issues they care about--from AIDS awareness to the environment--became part of our mission. Then, ...

Reporting from Kansas for MTV's Street Team.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Parker, Alex ... Today's news is often thought of as an opinion-driven business. Just ask Bill O'Reilly and Maureen Dowd and thousands of bloggers whose opinions go unchecked. As MTV's Street Team '08 correspondent in Kansas, I often wonder, "Can I be a reporter and an opinionated pundit?" It's a question ...

Shifting influence: from institution to individual.(Politics and the New Media)(Essay)

Jun 22, 2008; Harris, John ... The hype is true. The changes sweeping journalism, and political journalism in particular, are fundamental. And they are irreversible. Whether this is exciting or frightening depends on your vantage point, or--as in my case--on your mood on any given day. As a cofounder of ...

Election coverage becomes a time for 'instant innovation': at the Knoxville News Sentinel, bloggers were invited to steer good political coverage to the eyes of the newspaper's online readers.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Lail, Jack ... In one newsroom, the office manager recently moved a printer fewer than 50 feet to a more central location. The move brought squeals of protest. Something had changed. The printer stayed in its new location, albeit with plenty of grumbling. It is within this kind of climate that ...

Linking newspaper readers to the best political coverage.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Karp, Scott ... Who has the best political reporting on the Web? Is it: * National news organizations, with their broad perspective? * Local news media, because all politics is local? * Web-native newcomers, including bloggers, with their independent perspectives? ...

For campaign coverage, Web too often an afterthought.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Walker, Russ ... It took a while, but the checklist of how the Web would change American politics is nearly complete. * Voters will go online to learn about candidates and issues. * Politicians will use the Web to organize support, spread their messages, and raise money. * ...

Campaign 2008: it's on YouTube: since the last presidential election, the 'bubble' in which the press once operated 'has become a fishbowl.'.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; May, Albert L. ... In the annals of adversarial journalism, the dustup between Associated Press political reporter Glen Johnson and presidential candidate Mitt Romney preceding the 2008 South Carolina Republican primary might rate a mention in the next Teddy White-style campaign saga. Sprawled on the floor ...

YouTube: the flattening of politics: as online video reshapes political coverage, news organizations ignore it 'at their own peril.'.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Grove, Steve ... For a little over a year, I've served as YouTube's news and political director--perhaps a perplexing title in the eyes of many journalists. Such wonderment might be expected since YouTube gained its early notoriety as a place with videos of dogs on skateboards or kids falling off of ...

The 'B' word in traditional news and on the Web.(Politics and the New Media)(bitch)

Jun 22, 2008; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall ... On November 13, 2007 in Hilton Head, South Carolina, a middle-aged female member of the audience asked Republican presidential contender Senator John McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?" Amid audience laughter and despite a cautioning call from a male in the audience who advised the senator ...

Enclave extremism and journalism's brave new world: some contend that The Daily Me, a self-designed compendium of news and information, leads to increased political polarization.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Sunstein, Cass R. ... In 1995, MIT technology specialist Nicholas Negroponte predicted the emergence of The Daily Me--a newspaper that you design personally, with each component carefully screened and chosen in advance. With the increasing range of communications options, Negroponte's prediction is coming true ....

Political blogs: teaching us lessons about community: in the mediascape of blogs, people 'want the news delivered to them in the context of their attitudes and beliefs.'.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Kennedy, Dan ... The rise of blogging as both a supplement and a challenge to traditional journalism has coincided with an explosion of opinion mongering. Blogs--and the role they play in how Americans consume and respond to information--are increasingly visible during our political season, when our ...

Bloggers push past the old media's gatekeepers: from YouTube to The Huffington Post, new media 'are upending the presidential campaign process and raising questions about journalism's place in it.'.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; Fiedler, Tom ... Presidential candidate Barack Obama felt he was in safe harbor last April when he traveled to San Francisco to meet with admiring contributors in a Pacific Heights estate off limits to the media. Although the Pennsylvania primary loomed just ahead, the Illinois senator responded casually ...

New media battles old to define Internet-era politics.(Politics and the New Media)

Jun 22, 2008; McQuaid, John ... In 1988, I wanted to be Maureen Dowd. That year the Republican convention was held in New Orleans. I was working for The Times-Picayune, and the paper embarked on a plan that would be unthinkable today: It would spend gobs of money on national campaign coverage. The ultimate goal was to ...

Covering the Web as a force in electoral politics.(Politics and the New Media)(Brief article)

Jun 22, 2008; Sifry, Micah L. ... I remember the moment when I realized we are living in the Networked Age. In early 2004, I had gotten an assignment from The Nation, where I had spent many years earlier as an editor, asking me to explore the underlying dynamics of Howard Dean's political ascent. And so I started traveling ...