Author Mary Jordan, NF ’90 “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster” has never left me.“The heartbeat goes pop, pop, pop, 70 beats a minute.”[sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]In his December… September 20, 2018 Mary Meehan, NF ’16 At the Kentucky Derby women wear ridiculously elaborate hats and heels they regret within the hour. The horses are sleek and strong and beautiful. And, bonus, there’s always bourbon.When Seattle… September 20, 2018 Chong-ae Lee, NF ’13 In 2001 I covered a story about an 8-year-old girl who had been raped by older boys in her neighborhood. It was then that I became aware how little I… September 20, 2018 Bill Kovach, NF ’89 [sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]Izzy Stone taught a generation of reporters the bedrock principle that a reporter should never start with the… September 20, 2018 Victor McElheny, NF ’63 A reporter’s fateful question on March 31, 1954 led to the story that had more influence on my lifetime of science reporting than any other. The answer, symbolizing an age… September 20, 2018 Wenxin Fan, NF ’16 The story “Who Owns Luneng?”, now back online, was censored immediately after Caijing Magazine published it in January 2007. At newsstands, the magazine was bought up not by readers, but… September 20, 2018 Maria Henson, NF ’94 Having grown up in North Carolina and required as a child to learn the history of my state, I couldn’t help but be horrified upon learning of a bloody, national… September 20, 2018 Morton Mintz, NF ’64 I began in journalism at The University of Michigan student newspaper and became a fan of investigative journalist I.F. Stone’s weekly newsletter and the way he mined government documents to… September 20, 2018 Kalpana Jain, NF ’09 I entered journalism in the late 1980s—about 40 years after India gained freedom from British colonial rule. The media environment, in large part, was shaped by this colonial history. Many… September 20, 2018 Steve Oney, NF ’82 [sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]One of the eternal struggles for journalists is between the need to belong to something bigger than themselves… September 20, 2018 Previous 1 … 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 … 429 Next
