Nieman Reports articles from March 2005

Nieman Reports back issues from March 2005:

Continuity of change at the Nieman Foundation: 'while its ideals are deeply rooted in the core mission, the foundation could never afford to stand still.'.(Curator's Corner)

Mar 22, 2005;

U.S. and International coverage.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005

Why journalists need to cover the water story.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

By its absence water becomes a big story: 'I try to focus my coverage on people whose lives intersect with water.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

No agua, no vida: a photographer chronicles the slow death of the Colorado River Delta.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Covering water when it's a commodity: 'tracking the battles over water isn't a beat--it's a career.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

The Owens Lake project.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Finding necessary evidence to back up a tip: a 17-month investigation about drinking water pollution prompts action.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Investigating Washington, D.C.'s water quality: with lead levels endangering health, public agencies kept test results from consumers.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Local TV investigates who is polluting the water: a series of news reports found city agencies ignoring their own regulations and illegally polluting water in Dallas.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Connecting coastal growth with the Gulf of Mexico's decay: 'not everything is black and white, nor do the words legal and illegal do justice to these issues.'.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Complexity makes ocean fishing a tough story: '... the more I learned about fishing, the less clarity there seemed.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Monitoring Colorado's ongoing feuds about water: with a drought and expanding population, coverage of water gains importance.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

The story of water told in a tale of two towns: developing the narrative thread relied on finding key characters and weaving their experiences into the article's focus on water.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Motion and sound tell the online story in new ways.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Creating digital newsbooks: newspapers use them to bring enterprise reporting to a new audience on the Web.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Engaging viewers in conflicts about water: filmmakers invite 'viewers to commit themselves for a while to the characters on screen and the choices they make.'.(Reports on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Reporting on water as a global story: a network of international journalists produced multimedia reports on the consequences of privatizing water.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

When water and political power intersect: a journalist probes the story of water privatization in Jakarta, Indonesia.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Using narrative to tell stories about water: 'the imperatives of narrative nonfiction carried me like a current to the book's last words.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Reporting on dams in dictator-run countries: journalists' access to construction sites is curtailed, so environmental effects and population displacement can't be easily reported.(Watchdog)

Mar 22, 2005;

Reporting from the nation of the Nile: a journalist describes approaches to and experiences with coverage of Egypt's water issues.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

When coverage of a water crisis vanishes: 'unless there is a real and apparent danger ... reporters will find it hard to convince editors to dedicate time and space for water stories.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Water surfaces as a story only when it floods: three years after the Elbe River flood, 'it is even harder to get these topics back into the news.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Mainstream news reporting ignores critical water issues: in India, 'reportage on this complex subject has regressed to its earlier character--unsophisticated and immature.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Educating journalists in Nepal about sanitation and water issues: by bringing awareness and information to reporters, stories about these topics are starting to be told.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Tsunami coverage.

Mar 22, 2005

Taking on a traumatic reporting assignment in southern Thailand: '... the smell of the dead bodies is something you just don't know without having been through it before.'.(Tsunami Coverage)

Mar 22, 2005;

A question of representation: 'when no reporters, photographers or news editors come from the fishing community, it is unlikely this community's problems will be understood....'.(Tsunami Coverage)

Mar 22, 2005;

Media bias in covering the tsunami in Aceh: 'Indonesian journalists do not understand Aceh stories from the Acehnese perspective.'.(Tsunami Coverage)

Mar 22, 2005;

Reporting from a 'calamity that defies description': a tight focus on individuals allowed a U.S. journalist and photographer to present 'these people in scenes that began to form chapters in a narrative.'.(Tsunami Coverage)

Mar 22, 2005;

Global journalism about a regional catastrophe: the need for cross-cultural sensitivity is one lesson a journalist took away from his coverage of the tsunami.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Arriving at the digital news age: 'it is in this fusion of old and new that the future of journalism most probably lies.'.(Reporting on Water)

Mar 22, 2005;

Managing the army of temporary journalists: eyewitness online reporting about the tsunami complements coverage by mainstream news organizations.(Tsunami Coverage)

Mar 22, 2005;

A prayer for quality journalism as Public Media Corporations focus on margin and financial return: in crunching the numbers, an author argues that investment is necessary to secure a future for news--in newspapers or on the Internet.(The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

The precarious state of television news: 'we're going to have to completely reinvent it--not only the substance, but the way in which we interact with our audience.'.(News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

Technology might return journalism to its roots: two books set forth causes for concern about U.S. news media, and one of the authors speaks to the Internet's possibilities for rejuvenating journalism's promise.(Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media)(We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

An indefatigable investigative reporter: Seymour Hersh 'still comes through as an outsider hungry for the latest scraps of news.'.(Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

'Perilous Times' for first amendment rights: editors must 'send the clear signal--and offer the necessary support--to make the coverage of government secrecy a priority in their newsrooms.'.(Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

Freedom and liberty: tough stories to tell: 'when freedom and orthodoxy collide, it's interesting to note how the press behaves.'.(Words & Reflections)

Mar 22, 2005

The New York Times's travails in the reign of Raines: 'as the ship veered onto the rocks, those who voiced warnings were ignored, while the bosses told each other how smart they were.'.(Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

David Nyhan: more Irish than Harvard.(Words & Reflections)(Obituary)

Mar 22, 2005;

Strong narrative writing features character: 'like all the great narrative journalists, [Mark] Bowden must be a relentless asker of questions, a painstaking gatherer of minute detail.'.(Words & Reflections)(Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues and Beasts)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

Iraq War documentaries fill a press vacuum: '... filmmakers have become a source of alternative explanations for the war in Iraq and the news coverage of it, as well as critics of the administration's policies.'.(Words & Reflections)

Mar 22, 2005;

When people's suffering is portrayed as art: Sebastiao Salgado's photographs 'represent everything that is meaningful, controversial and difficult about "concerned photography."'.(Words & Reflections)(Sahel: The End of the Road)(Book Review)

Mar 22, 2005;

Frank del Olmo's words are a tribute to his life: while he 'wrote through Latino eyes, the core themes he explored in his columns--the quest for truth and justice--are universal.'.(Nieman Notes)

Mar 22, 2005; ... The "two Franks." That's what some Los Angeles Times colleagues called Frank del Olmo and me because we tackled so many projects together. I never imagined that our final endeavor together would occur after his death. We had been scheduled to have a working lunch on that fateful ...

Lester Grant died of pneumonia on December 31st in Dallas, Texas.(1948)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Mar 22, 2005;

John H.K. (Jack) Flower died January 9th in Mona Vale Hospital in New South Whales, Australia.(1953)(Obituary)

Mar 22, 2005;

H.Y. Sharada Prasad's son Ravi writes: "H.Y Sharada Prasad and his wife, Kamala, are in good shape for a couple in their 80's.(1956)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

W. Hodding Carter III.(1966)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Rodolfo T. Reyes.(1966)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Barbara Reynolds.(1977)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Danny Schechter.(1978)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

John C. Huff, Jr.(1979)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

D'Vera Cohn.(1984)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Peg Finucane has "finished her midlife crisis," she says, left Newsday, and is now teaching journalism full-time at Hofstra University on Long Island after juggling a day job, adjunct teaching, and graduate school for several years.(1985)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Nieman Reunion, May 6-8, 2005 in Cambridge.(Nieman Notes)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Eugene Robinson.(1988)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Julio Godoy writes: "Since our arrival in Paris in 1999, I have been working for the press agency IPS, covering environmental, European and human rights issues.(1989)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Carla Robbins.(1990)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Katherine Skiba's first book, "Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq," was published in March by the University Press of Kansas.(1991)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Raymundo Riva-Palacio.(1992)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Matthew Zencey.(1993)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Lisa Getter.(1995)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;

Robert Blau.(1997)(Brief Article)

Mar 22, 2005;