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Wahyu Dhyatmika, NF ’15

Wahyu Dhyatmika, NF ’15

The mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-’66 left a deep mark on the nation’s collective psyche. Watching the documentary “The Act of Killing” about the atrocity when it was first…

Michael Petrou, NF ’18

Comic strips in the newspaper were my entry drug into journalism when I was a child in the 1980s. I then begin experimenting with baseball box scores, and by the…
Megan O’Grady, NF ’12

Megan O’Grady, NF ’12

When I met Brit Bennett, in 2016, it was to discuss her first novel, “The Mothers,” a Baldwin-inspired tale of the friendship between two Southern California girls growing up amid…
Phillip Martin, NF ’98

Phillip Martin, NF ’98

The late Danny Schechter’s examination of apartheid-era South Africa shaped my path from radio intern in the 1970s to senior investigative reporter at WGBH in Boston exploring social injustice. Schechter,…

Nicholas Quah, NF ’17

[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]“What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity” was the article that…

Alisa Sopova, NF ’17

[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]When I think about what influenced me as a journalist, a classic example of excellent Russian journalism—which is,…
Wonbo Woo, NF ’16

Wonbo Woo, NF ’16

[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]Robert Krulwich is best known today as the co-host of NPR’s “Radiolab.” But before launching the pioneering podcast…
Maciek Nabrdalik, NF ’17

Maciek Nabrdalik, NF ’17

In the summer of 2015 while I was in Greece documenting the refugee crisis I had a disturbing encounter with another photojournalist. He said he doesn’t like it when refugees…
Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15

Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15

It is April 1994. I’m a final year student at a university in South Africa—on the threshold of a career in journalism. It is eerily quiet on campus. Most of…
Dina Temple-Raston, NF ’14

Dina Temple-Raston, NF ’14

[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]You don’t find books; books find you. That’s what essayist Joseph Epstein told us in our writing classes…