85th Anniversary

'Stories Stalk You. Stories Beguile You'

‘Stories Stalk You. Stories Beguile You’

In the five years since the last Nieman Fellows reunion, the world has been torn by pandemic and war. Journalism had suffered too, weakened by record job cuts while called…
‘Here I Am, Please Tell Me Your Story’

‘Here I Am, Please Tell Me Your Story’

How a chance encounter led to a book about the fire at the Los Angeles Public Library.
A World Where Those with Weapons Have Absolute Authority

A World Where Those with Weapons Have Absolute Authority

When you’re covering war in your own country, the gap between you and the rest of humanity feels overwhelming.
My Life of Chasing Big Scoops, Catching Shit, and Shoveling It for Applause

My Life of Chasing Big Scoops, Catching Shit, and Shoveling It for Applause

Between working at the circus and covering Alabama politics, I've met a lot of clowns.
Three Months in a Zimbabwean Prison Couldn’t Stop Me from Reporting on Corruption

Three Months in a Zimbabwean Prison Couldn’t Stop Me from Reporting on Corruption

Political elites were looting Covid relief funds, but that was just the first part of the story.
Uncovering a Hospital’s Predatory Debt-Collection Process and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Uncovering a Hospital’s Predatory Debt-Collection Process and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

If poverty isn’t an accident, but a robbery, then there are thieves with names that journalists can uncover.