From the Editor

 By Jacqui BanaszynskiHonorable readers, the writer stipulate: I once dreamed of attending law school.I took a few pre-law courses in college before reality, aka economics, led me away from more…

By Jacqui BanaszynskiA long-time aspiration of mine has been to read more of the classics. My formal dip into that kind of literature was in high school, reading and discussing…

Kindness isn’t a word often used to describe journalism or journalists. I get that. To those who don’t do this work, we can seem abrupt, aggressive, even cynical and certainly…

I’ve always questioned the old aphorism that misery loves company. When I let myself throw a Pity Party, it’s a pretty self-absorbed affair, with room for only one in the…

The headlines coming out of last week’s public hearing of the Congressional Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol focused on the unanimous vote to…

Journalist Kelley Benham French turned an active-shooter lockdown into a teachable moment for her college students — and herself

Story craft surrounds us, not just in journalism but in pretty much everything I can think of. Proof, I guess, that humans are hard-wired for story. It teaches, informs, entertains,…

The Queen is dead. Long live the King.OK, that may be the most predictable line I’ve ever written, but a version of it has been working for the Brits for,…

We interrupt your syllabus prep with this important message:Consider Nieman Storyboard as a resource – and even publication destination – in your reporting, writing and journalism ethics courses.Storyboard is a…

War can become an abstraction unless, of course, you’re in the middle of it. We can read about it or see images, which often are more powerful than words in…