Har­vard University’s Nie­man Foun­da­tion, which admin­is­ters the pres­ti­gious Nie­man Fel­low­ship, has pub­lished the Sep­tem­ber issue of the Nie­man Reports, look­ing at the inter­sec­tion between blog­ging and jour­nal­ism. The entire issue is avail­able as a .pdf file for down­load.
My con­tri­bu­tion starts on page 84, but the entire pack­age is excel­lent, with strong offer­ings by J.D. Lasica, Eric Alter­man and Dan Gill­mor.
The com­plete list is:

• Weblogs and Jour­nal­ism: Do They Con­nect? by Rebecca Blood
• Is Blog­ging Jour­nal­ism? by Paul Andrews
• Weblogs: A Road Back to Basics by Bill Mitchell
• Weblogs Threaten and Inform Tra­di­tional Jour­nal­ism by Tom Regan
• Blogs and Jour­nal­ism Need Each Other by J.D. Lasica
• Weblogs Bring Jour­nal­ists Into a Larger Com­mu­nity by Paul Grabow­icz
• Blog­ging Jour­nal­ists Invite Out­siders’ Report­ing In by Sheila Lennon
• Mov­ing Toward Par­tic­i­pa­tory Jour­nal­ism by Dan Gill­mor
• Weblogs and Jour­nal­ism: Back to the Future? by Glenn Har­lan Reynolds
• Blog­ging From Iraq by me
• Deter­min­ing the Value of Blogs by Eric Alter­man
• The Infec­tious Desire to Be Linked in the Blo­gos­phere by Mark Glaser
• Read­ers Glimpse an Edi­to­r­ial Board’s Think­ing by Keven Ann Willey
• A Reporter Is Fired for Writ­ing a Weblog by Steve Olaf­son
• An Edi­tor Acts to Limit a Staffer’s Weblog by Brian Toolan (Edi­tor, Hart­ford Courant, no blog)
• Blog­ging Con­nects a Colum­nist to New Story Ideas by Mike Wend­land
• Blog­gers and Their First Amend­ment Pro­tec­tion by Jane E. Kirtley
• A Weblog Sharp­ens Jour­nal­ism Stu­dents’ Skills by Larry Pryor

I plan to use a lot of this in my course that I’m teach­ing at NYU, so any of my stu­dents read­ing this blog should just down­load it now.