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Margaret Engel

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Margaret Engel, a 1979 Nieman Fellow, is the director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation in Washington, D.C. and has reported for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register.

Margaret Engel, NF ’79

Executive director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Engel has reported for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register The setting was a Nieman seminar; the speaker one of Harvard’s…
September 20, 2013

Bringing the Wit and Wisdom of Molly Ivins to the Stage

Two journalists turned playwrights mine a mother lode of material in the writings of the acerbic political observer.
December 11, 2009

The ‘P’ Word in the Book Business

‘Newspapers constantly editorialize about other professionals hiding their misdeeds, but with this they were silent.’
December 15, 2006