With URL Media, S. Mitra Kalita, a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, seeks to elevate Black and brown media organizations. The June primary to represent my district in the state legislature in Albany was a crowded one. One night, I received … Read more
With her documentary “Out of the Picture,” Mary Louise Schumacher, NF ’17, hopes to prompt national conversation about art criticism and how meaning gets made in the 21st century: When I first set out to make “Out of the Picture,” … Read more
At Germany’s The New Institute, Georg Diez, NF ‘17, hopes storytelling is the catalyst for societal change. What is the power, urgency, some would say duty of journalism in the face of the crises the world is facing today, starting … Read more
Editor Michael Petrou, NF ’18, invites people whose voices aren’t usually heard in foreign policy publications to tell their stories Canadians haven’t had to worry too much about the rest of the world for the past 75 years. We’re surrounded … Read more
With their Diversifying Journalism project, 2020 Nieman Fellows Ana Campoy, Jasmine Brown, and Selymar Colón are building databases of journalists and experts of color. At the time I was looking for my first job, newsrooms were trying to become more … Read more
With the new CBC podcast “What On Earth,” Laura Lynch, NF ’00, is bringing climate change coverage — and potential solutions — to Canadians. The phone call came in May. The Canadian Broadcasting bosses in Toronto wanted … Read more
Hannane Ferdjani, NF ’20, launched her program “Beyond the Noise” to report on the pandemic’s impact on Africa Providing better narratives about Africa — it’s been my journalism quest since I first stumbled my way into … Read more
David Barboza, NF ’16, is turning information gathered by his journalists into a database for companies During much of my time working as a journalist at The New York Times, I kept asking myself the same question: what do I … Read more
Nieman curator Howard Simons used to tease our class of ’77 about the number of members who abandoned journalism. Mel Goo became a lawyer; Dolly Katz, an epidemiologist. Al Larkin stayed at The Boston Globe, but switched to the business … Read more
A longtime journalist who wrote his first investigation on a sturdy Olivetti typewriter, I, a streetwise dinosaur, 10 years ago teamed up with millenials to launch the very small online, nonprofit publication IDL-Reporteros. My hope was to make it a … Read more
