India hosts the Taliban, but not female reporters. The initial exclusion drew widespread condemnation, and a rare display of solidarity among India’s divided press corps, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social. niemanreports.org/india-taliba...

A newsletter by and for New Jersey South Asians serves the state’s sprawling Desi communities www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-ne...

Curious about the Nieman Fellowship? Join us for a live Q&A session to learn what it’s like to spend a year studying as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University this Friday, November 7, 1:00 PM ET.

“I'm a throwback. I think I'm kind of more in the mold of Joseph Mitchell, or one of the older music writers who would find odd corners of American culture and write about them.” @tromano.bsky.social in conversation with Burkhard Bilger. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/31/b...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @tromano.bsky.social in conversation with Burkhard Bilger, plus: Dana Hedgpeth & Sari Horwitz, @saribotton.bsky.social, @gretarainbow.com, and Erika Hayasaki pays tribute to Richard Kipling. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/31/s...

A new resource created at the Reynolds Journalism Institute is tracking these initiatives and has identified 18 states where lawmakers have considered some manner of support for local journalism. niemanreports.org/news-deserts...

💡 I Was a Fixer: Here’s Why Journalism Needs to Rethink the Role. Fair compensation, recognition are essential for local journalists who take risks to bring stories to life. niemanreports.org/fixers-journ...

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/17/n... #longreads #podcasts #booksky

Since the start of the summer, “Gulf of America” has been losing what little popularity it had as the "Gulf of Mexico" is still in use almost everywhere. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine... via @niemanlab.org

“There is a set of populous countries, generally where traditional media are under pressure and social media use is high, where news creators are having a significant impact" @hanaatameez.bsky.social wrote up a fascinating @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...

News creator audiences typically pay attention to creators from their own countries. But when the survey asked respondents to name news-related individuals on social media and video platforms, right-wing American creators had an outsized influence. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...

⚠️ New legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social. "Official narratives are upheld by marginalizing rival voices by limiting reach, smear campaigns, and lazy innuendo,” said veteran reporter M. Rajshekhar. niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

Welcome to the Dissident Club: Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui runs a Paris bar for fellow reporters and whistleblowers in exile niemanreports.org/dissident-cl...

“We called it the George Santos prevention program.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebu...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @claudiarowe.bsky.social, @somers.bsky.social, @sarafredman.bsky.social, @bartona104.bsky.social, @jatomic.bsky.social, @audioflux.bsky.social, @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social, Tat Bellamy-Walker... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/24/s...

From the Nieman Storyboard archives: Lessons from the writing of Susan Orlean niemanstoryboard.org/tag/susan-or...

Read our interview with Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, who become one of Gaza's most prominent voices by sharing firsthand accounts of the devastation of her homeland. niemanreports.org/eyes-of-gaza...

NIEMAN FOUNDATION: “The Eyes of Gaza”: A Tale of Journalism and Survival buff.ly/HMy7XsZ @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @niemanlab.org @niemanreports.org #journalism #photojournalism

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @susanorlean.bsky.social & @manjula.bsky.social, Kate Sosin of @19thnews.org, @bittersouth.bsky.social, @aaroncalafato.bsky.social ... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/17/s... #journalism #longreads #booksky #podcasts

“As a trans person, I have to write news that makes me want to get up in the morning … stories that are more constructive than just, ‘Here's another thing that has been taken away from you.’” — Kate Sosin of @19thnews.org niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/17/j...

New in @niemanreports.org: Media watchers say recent court orders have given Gautam Adani, the Adani Group's billionaire owner, increasing censorship powers over his critics, representing a grave threat to press freedom in India. niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

"While we heard throughout the research that people value the role of local news, the word 'journalism' can evoke partisanship or elitism for some audiences, while 'media' sounds like entertainment to many people." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

The variety in these newsletters, and their creators, is an indicator of the ever-blurrier lines around what counts as news and who counts as a journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/are-...

had a nerdy emo convo with the amazing @cmtapper.bsky.social for the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast. we got into journeys of self-worth, my lifelong journaling practice, stories within stories, editing, as well as Sade, Whitney, SZA, and the power of the word, "I" niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d...

This week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast features @cmtapper.bsky.social's moving and heartfelt conversation with @danyelsmith.bsky.social, about building the confidence to tell your own story. Give it a listen. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d... #booksky #podcasts #longreads

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

Going Beyond War’s Cliches: A collaborative project records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion niemanreports.org/frontline-wa...

Israel has killed at least 237 journalists and media workers since October 7, 2023, according to CPJ data. Those who have survived the record death toll have faced being traumatized, displaced, and deliberately starved over the last two years. More from @niemanreports.org:

New in @niemanreports.org: Media watchers say recent court orders have given Gautam Adani, the Adani Group's billionaire owner, increasing censorship powers over his critics, representing a grave threat to press freedom in India. niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

NIEMAN FOUNDATION: India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press ift.tt/3AgYoa9 @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @niemanlab.org @niemanreports.org #journalism #photojournalism

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year. More from @niemanreports.org: 🔗: https://niemanreports.org/gaza-journalists-israel-palestine-war-reporting/

Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth. niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...

NIEMAN FOUNDATION: Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions buff.ly/JgoW6TF @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @niemanlab.org @niemanreports.org #journalism #photojournalism

Taha Siddiqui, a Pakistani journalist in exile, runs the Dissident Club, a bar and community space he opened in Paris for journalists, whistleblowers, exiles and those facing oppression. “Even in exile, our work continues,” he told @niemanreports.org. niemanreports.org/dissident-cl...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com, Kari Howard, @miasato.bsky.social, @karenpalmer.bsky.social, @brendanomeara.bsky.social, Justin Heckert. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/03/s... #journalism #longreads #storytelling #booksky

Taha Siddiqui, a Pakistani journalist in exile, runs the Dissident Club, a bar and community space he opened in Paris for journalists, whistleblowers, exiles and those facing oppression. “Even in exile, our work continues,” he told @niemanreports.org. niemanreports.org/dissident-cl...

Related reading: How the uprising in Nepal caught legacy media flat-footed, in @niemanreports.org! niemanreports.org/nepal-gen-z-...

Nepal’s Discord Revolution and the Press An uprising fomented on social media catches legacy journalism, and the world, by surprise niemanreports.org/nepal-gen-z-...

“If you are using AI with sensitive information, you’re just blasting a hole through your information security.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-...

A look inside the AI strategies at The New York Times and The Washington Post www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/a-lo...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @michaelkruse.bsky.social and Bill Duryea on a 16-year partnership, plus @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @danwilsonmusic.bsky.social, @hco96.bsky.social, and Alice Driver. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/26/e... #longreads #journalism #booksky

NIEMAN FOUNDATION: Going Beyond War’s Cliches ift.tt/BJPrEel @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @niemanlab.org @niemanreports.org @anastasiatl.bsky.social #journalism #photojournalism

Going Beyond War’s Cliches: 5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion. niemanreports.org/frontline-wa...

"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that." A new report from @newsisout.bsky.social asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/loca...

This week on the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I was thrilled to talk with @michaelkruse.bsky.social and his longtime editor, Bill Duryea, about editor-reporter relationships and their 16-year collaboration at the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social and @politico.com. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/25/m...

"Michael and I probably both subscribe to the theory that 90 percent of life, and reporting, is just showing up.” At our sister publication @niemanstoryboard.org, @michaelkruse.bsky.social and his longtime editor, Bill Duryea, reflect on a 16-year partnership. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/26/e...

"Like so many journalists, Megan Greenwell resisted inserting herself into the story that would ultimately shape her career. But the plot came to her." @greenwell.bsky.social

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

Newsroom security is paramount as the federal government cracks down on journalism. “What’s really important is that sources know where to reach you in a way that helps them stay secure,” FPF's @davisa.bsky.social told @niemanlab.org.