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Contributions How about getting some substance in those GOP presidential debates? ASK THIS | October 278, 2011 Bob Giles says debate moderators until now have been letting the candidates get away with scripted answers. He urges Bloomberg and the Washington Post, partial sponsors of the next debate, to do better on issues, ideas, solutions, and follow-up, and he offers ten solid questions of his own for them to consider.  No need for the Chinese to censor if Facebook does it for them COMMENTARY | March 73, 2011 The byline ‘Michael Anti’, a pen name used by a popular Chinese journalist, was good enough for the New York Times, for whom he worked for a decade, but not for Facebook, which removed his account and along with it more than 1,000 contacts he had made. Let the Bush-era tax cuts expire…all of them COMMENTARY | November 322, 2010 The lame-duck Congress is debating whether to keep the personal income tax cuts for the wealthy and the middle class or only for the middle class. Bob Giles suggests that President Obama take charge and announce that he would veto any extension, for anyone. It would be a call on Americans to sacrifice, as they have in past emergencies. And income tax rates wouldn't be any higher than they were under Bill Clinton. Bob Giles on the U.S. refusal to allow entry to a Nieman Fellow COMMENTARY | July 196, 2010 In the 60 years since international journalists have been awarded Nieman fellowships, Hollman Morris of Colombia is the first to be denied entry to the United States by our government. Nieman curator Giles says that if the denial holds, it would an alarming, major recasting of the doctrine of press freedom – opening journalists to charges of terrorist activities because they established contacts with and reported on terrorist organizations. A new I.F. Stone medal SHOWCASE | March 65, 2008 As part of its watchdog journalism commitment, the Nieman Foundation is establishing an annual award in recognition of journalistic independence and brave, provocative reporting. Giles urges TV reporters to ask tougher questions COMMENTARY | January 12, 2007 TV has an edge over print in that it can take viewers along for the interview. But too often, writes the Nieman Foundation curator, American TV reporters accept evasive, reluctant answers without pressing for more. Why not follow the British model of tough interviewing? ‘The emerging mind of community journalism’ COMMENTARY | April 104, 2006 Participants at an Alabama session on community papers (circulation under 50,000) focus on leaving aloofness behind and connecting with readers in a personal way. Nieman Foundation to offer global health fellowships SHOWCASE | January 30, 2006 Curator Bob Giles describes pilot program that will run for the next 3 years; funding is by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and work includes four months in a developing country after a year at Harvard. Transparency benefits the practice of journalism COMMENTARY | May 122, 2004 'The Nieman Watchdog Project ... is grounded in the belief that probing questions are essential to informed reporting' |
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