Author Joshua Hammer Joshua Hammer was a bureau chief on four continents and a correspondent at large for Newsweek. For the past eight years, the 2005 Nieman Fellow has been a contributing writer to Smithsonian, The New York Review of Books, and Outside Magazine. As Legacy News Outlets Retreat, Who Will Be There to Report on the World? In October, as Ebola raged out of control and unsettled much of the world, I began making plans for a reporting trip to West Africa. I had covered a minor… December 11, 2014 A Life’s Work Reconsidered A reporter, kidnapped in Fallujah, reflects in the aftermath of that experience. December 15, 2004