Fall 2010

Where Documentary Meets Journalism Fall 2010

We examine the two disciplines of journalism and documentary—where they converge and where they diverge, how one informs the other, and what is transferable from one to the other.

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Features

Awards of Academia: Peabodys and duPonts Honor the Real Reality

In its Fall 2001 issue, Nieman Reports, published...

By Miri Hess

Swimming with Sharks: Documentary on the Rough Seas of Reality TV

Love it or hate it, reality TV is here to stay. In...

By Elizabeth Blozan

The Death of Objectivity? When Documentary Footage Becomes Evidence

Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California...

By Belinda Baldwin

David's Devotees: Remembrances from Alumni of Wolper U.

David Wolper, whose Wolper Organization was a...

By Tom White

The Message Is the Medium: The Difference between Documentarians and Journalists

What is the place of the documentary journalism...

By Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson

A Question of Ethics: The Relationship between Filmmaker and Subject

Any filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary...

By wanda bershen

That's Celebritainment!: Paparazzi Are the Stars in Two New Docs

'Teenage Paparazzo' and 'Smash His Camera'

By Michael Rose

Columns

Notes from the Reel World: The President's Column, Fall 2010

By Rachel Kamerman

Fast Foreword: The Editor's Column, Fall 2010

By Tom White

Kim Longinotto's 'Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go'

By Havana Marking

Documentary Activism: Empowering Communities Through the Media

By Marc Glassman

Film Forum at Forty: Still Independent and Individualistic

By Tamara Krinsky

Meet 'Middletown': Ordinary Americans at Extraordinary Moments

By Cynthia Close

The Uncomfortable Truth: Davis Guggenheim Takes on the US Education System

By Agnes Varnum

Tackling Sports History: ESPN's '30 for 30'

By Scott Bayer