Doesn’t that look like the kind of place you’d like to spend a year?
That’s Lippmann House on the Harvard campus, where I’m lucky enough to come to work every day. It’s also the home of the Nieman Fellowships, the wonderful program that allows journalists to spend a year at Harvard, taking classes and researching [...]

The leaves are turning and there’s a chill in the air, which can only mean one thing: It’s time to think about applying for a Nieman Fellowship here at Harvard.
For 70-plus years, the Nieman has given accomplished mid-career journalists the chance to step away from their work and spend a year studying at Harvard. Niemans [...]

The oft-defended public service and watchdog components of journalism are most important when a frightening topic is making the rounds. Clear reporting can have a huge influence during these times.
Toward that end, our colleagues at The Nieman Foundation have launched www.coveringflu.org. It’s a comprehensive online guide that helps journalists separate pandemic flu misconceptions from important [...]

I’m happy to announce a rare event in contemporary journalism: The availability of a good job.
This good job happens to be working for me here at the Nieman Journalism Lab. We’re looking for a full-time reporter and editor to join our little newsroom here at Harvard. This person would do the kinds of things we [...]

I’ve been hesitant to post anything since there have been a few false alarms in the past two weeks, but it does truly appear that my friend and Nieman colleague Iason Athanasiadis has been released from Iranian custody. CPJ has issued a statement on his release, which I imagine is as good a confirmation as [...]

There’s a friendly rivalry among the various university-based fellowship programs for journalists. It goes without saying, obviously, that the finest is the granddaddy of them all: the Nieman Fellowships here at Harvard, founded in 1938. (Along with being the finest and oldest, it is also my alma mater and my employer, so color me biased.) [...]

Our siblings at the Nieman Narrative Digest have a collection of pieces up on a terrific multimedia package called Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire by the Associated Press. They’ve got an interview with producer Evan Vucci and Connie Hale’s thoughts on how it works as narrative.

In case the Lab is your introduction to the Nieman Foundation, we’re actually best known for our annual class of Nieman Fellows. They’re a group of 20-30 top-notch journalists — half American, half from around the world — who get to spend a year studying the subjects of their choices here at Harvard, while being [...]

It’s now often possible to walk around Boston without mukluks, so summer can’t be too far off. And that means it’s time to announce the first Nieman Journalism Lab summer internships.
Rather than a traditional full-time internship, we’re trying something a little different. We’re calling it a microinternship. (You can still put “intern” on your resume, [...]

Our colleagues over at the Nieman narrative program have posted the latest edition of their Digest, and it’s got a connection to the kind of stuff we write about here. They look at how two recently closed newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle P-I, memorialized themselves through video.
You can see the videos [...]

Jennifer Crandall of the Washington Post has been assembling a sum of many parts, the highly-regarded onBeing series that runs weekly on washingtonpost.com. (It’s been on hiatus for a while and is supposed to relaunch sometime soon.)
The series, which features interesting people saying interesting things in a spare white environment that strips away context [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, this weekend will be the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, at the Sheraton Boston. (Pre-registration has closed, although there’ll be walkup registration at the event Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.)
While the thrust of the weekend is narrative, we’ll be there too. (You’ll see some products of that here next week.) But in [...]

You’ll notice a few changes around the Lab today, hopefully all for the better. My thanks to our friends at Upstatement, a Boston web-design agency with lots of newspaper ties, for their work on this refresh.
Perhaps the most subtle change is staring you in the face: our logo above.
Our official nom de blog is [...]

A number of you have taken us up on our Lab-readers-only offer to save $100 on registration for the upcoming Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. It’ll be held here in Boston March 20-22, which is the weekend after next. Lots of great speakers, from Adam Hochschild to Gwen Ifill to Jon Lee Anderson to Amy [...]

Times Open, the conference for software developers hosted by The New York Times on Friday, suspended the typical gloom about the future of newspapers in favor of a mandate best captured by the keynote speaker, web entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly. “If there’s some feature you want” on NYTimes.com, he said, “don’t wait for the Times to [...]