In 1991, The Des Moines Register’s series about a rape victim won a Pulitzer for Public Service. The subject of the series, Nancy Ziegenmeyer, decided to go public after reading a column…

To keep pace with the changing economics of newspapers, Hearn turned the San Diego Union-Tribune’s investigative unit she led into a nonprofit We obsessed over the future of journalism in…

Roberts worked as a reporter in North Carolina before becoming the chief Southern and civil rights correspondent for The New York Times after his Nieman year. He is co-author of…

"Room just to hang out"

Though The New York Times lacks a beat reporter and covers the issue of mass incarceration sporadically at best, those three pieces by Tierney in early 2013 addressed two key…

In an encrypted Q&A with The New York Times Magazine, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden warned that journalists have been slow to properly respond to the threat of government…

Through her syndicated column, Goodman brought her feminist concerns to newspapers across the nation. O’Brien, a longtime political reporter, drew on her old beat when she started writing novels Until…

From the Nieman Foundation's 50th Anniversary: A Personal Account of the Early Nieman Years

“Oh! The Maltese Falcon”

“What led you to where you are now?”