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From Nieman Reports | A reporter's story of Evin prison after the 2009 Iranian uprising SHOWCASE Confess your role as an instigator and you’ll be released in a couple of days, Tehran prison interrogators told journalist Maziar Bahari in 2009. He did, and there followed 108 more days of beatings, solitary confinement and harsh night-time questioning. His book, Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, is reviewed in the Fall 2011 issue of Nieman Reports, now available online. 
From Nieman Reports | Revisiting racial crimes of the civil rights era SHOWCASE Why is it important for reporters to get to the bottom of murders that took place so long ago? Hank Klibanoff has no trouble answering that question. For starters he notes that there's no statute of limitations on murder, and there’s a reason for that. (From the Fall 2011 edition of Nieman Reports, online now.)
From Nieman Reports | A veteran reporter and editor, starting over and aiming to provide high-value local news SHOWCASE James O’Shea has been chief editor of the L.A. Times and an M.E. at the Chicago Tribune. Now he’s editor of the Chicago News Cooperative, a new venture trying to provide deeper, better local coverage. Will it work? O’Shea’s answer: ‘It’s too soon to say. But we would rather be out there trying to figure out how we can finance quality journalism than waiting for doomsday to arrive.’
The 74th class | A listing of the Nieman Foundation’s 2012 Fellows SHOWCASE The 24 journalists selected include newspaper, radio, TV, and online editors and reporters and free-lancers. Curator Bob Giles noted that the diverse group “includes journalists who have reported from around the globe on an extraordinarily wide range of topics and, in many cases, under dangerous circumstances.”
Facts not fiction, please | Editors, artists chafe at the errors and hype in bin Laden death story graphics SHOWCASE Some of the graphics that ran alongside the bin Laden death story deserve an A for creativeness but a D or an F for accuracy, as pointed out by Juan Antonio Giner and Alberto Cairo. They call for higher standards for infographics and produce a six-point checklist to insure such standards are met. Signifying the importance of the issue, 58 experts from 22 countries have endorsed the statement and added their names to it.
Census 2010 v. 2000 | New mapping tool helps reporters zoom in on segregation SHOWCASE The Remapping Debate website's new maps focus on large metropolitan areas. In them, almost two-thirds of the people– more than 115 million out of almost 180 milion – live in areas of high racial segregation. That’s an improvement over a ten-year period, but not much of one.
On the web | New tool puts tax rates in historical context SHOWCASE The Remapping Debate website's device compares tax rates over the years, adjusting for inflation and translating the numbers into 2010 dollars.
From Nieman Reports | Dealing with massively corrupt reporting in Eastern Europe SHOWCASE ‘I was wondering why any sane person would invest trust and respect in most of the journalists who work (in Romania),' writes Stefan Candea. 'Their main product is propaganda and their primary talent is withholding the truth.’ (From the Spring 2011 edition of Nieman Reports, the theme of which is 'Shattering Barriers to Reveal Corruption.')
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