If it was good enough for Jane Austen …

A reluctant reconsideration of "they" as a singular pronoun, with a short plea for pronoun clarity

By Jacqui Banaszynski • September 13, 2019

Will this date ever fade?

Remembering the day, and the stories we wish never had to be written

By Jacqui Banaszynski • September 11, 2019

Exposing what the police and courts wouldn’t — and what society owes in return

Haunted by youthful memories of claims of rape, a opinion writer goes home to seek the truth and expose the moral “rot” of shaming the victim

By Chip Scanlan • September 10, 2019

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A bag of ashes, a research-loving reporter, the public library, and a three-hour hunt

By Trevor Pyle

September 6, 2019

Shop Class: A newspaper reporter accepts a two-word challenge, and finds a veteran's survivors after police give up

A new “true story” award honors longform nonfiction from around the world

By Jacqui Banaszynski

September 6, 2019

Top winners from Russia, U.S., China; a foundation created by independent Swiss journalists seeks to "broaden the predominantly Western view"

Revisiting the “Ghost Ship” fire

By Jacqui Banaszynski

September 6, 2019

Verdicts in the case of a deadly fire at an artists' warehouse provide no clear answers, but prompt another look at an annotated profile of the accused

A self-made freelance career (with a little help along the way)

By Allison Kirkland

August 29, 2019

Barry Yeoman talks about a life of learning to report, write, listen, and keep up

Chasing ghosts that will forever haunt

By Chip Scanlan

August 27, 2019

"Ghosts of Highway 20:" Through serendipity, creativity and care, a newspaper in Oregon finds answers 40 years after police and courts failed

Shop class: Stuck before you start? Eat a cookie, take a walk, set it out for the elves

By Laurie Hertzel

August 28, 2019

Advice to a blocked writer from others who have suffered the same

Reclaiming history with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up

By Kim Cross

August 23, 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Alabama's memorial to slavery was conceived through the eyes of slavery's descendants

From the caress of love to the fists of fear

By Ricki Morell

August 23, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: This week, Nieman Reports magazine takes an unflinching look at domestic violence, and at the challenges and imperative of covering for what it is: not a “crime of passion” but a global social crisis. The magazine explores how the issue is being covered in… Read More