Nieman 80 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 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 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 María Ramírez, NF ’18 [sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]“The Money Shot” is a story about the male porn industry in Los Angeles and the suicide of… September 20, 2018 Tangeni Amupadhi, NF ’07 In my 11 years at The Namibian, Namibia’s largest daily newspaper, we have never published an investigative story that was more widely read than one earlier this year about a… September 20, 2018 Julia Keller, NF ’98 As cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune for a dozen years, I was sometimes called upon to write the big, epic think pieces that necessarily follow in the wake of… September 20, 2018 Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 Next
