Niemans @ Work

Tom Witosky, NF ’92, collaborated with another veteran sportswriter to chronicle the battle over same-sex marriage

Tom Witosky, NF ’92, collaborated with another veteran sportswriter to chronicle the battle over same-sex marriage

The journey to write “Equal Before the Law: How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality” began April 3, 2009, when the Iowa Supreme Court granted gays and lesbians the right…
May 27, 2015
Tom Witosky

Alison MacAdam, NF ’14, helps NPR colleagues develop and share storytelling techniques

For 11 years, I worked somewhere famous.Now, I work somewhere virtually unknown.In January, I left “All Things Considered” (“ATC”)—seven months since my Nieman fellowship ended—to create a position at NPR’s…
May 19, 2015
Alison MacAdam
Greg Marinovich, NF ’14, joins with fellow photographers to showcase more of the images they create

Greg Marinovich, NF ’14, joins with fellow photographers to showcase more of the images they create

Haiti’s Le Saut waterfall is an important religious site on the islandA couple years ago, just as I was starting my Nieman year, the “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and…
May 4, 2015
Greg Marinovich
At Fusion, Jane Spencer, NF ’13, brings together new media and a sense of public service

At Fusion, Jane Spencer, NF ’13, brings together new media and a sense of public service

In Mexico City, where street harassment is notoriously aggressive, degrading catcalls are hurled at women on buses, sidewalks, and in their daily commutes.Last fall Fusion embarked on a project to…
March 24, 2015
Jane Spencer
A partnership created by Esquire’s Tyler Cabot, NF ’14, and Northeastern University empowers j-school students to tell old stories in new ways

A partnership created by Esquire’s Tyler Cabot, NF ’14, and Northeastern University empowers j-school students to tell old stories in new ways

From the very beginning—the scrolls of maps marked with every police station, hospital, and border patrol outpost; the long discussions about satellite phones and kidnapping insurance; the phone call with…
March 24, 2015
Tyler Cabot

2014 Visiting Fellow Samar Padmaker Halarnkar is building a data-driven site about India’s biggest challenges

Over the five months that I have been editor of IndiaSpend, a data-driven website that focuses on public interest journalism, our social media following has increased by about 600 percent, albeit…
March 24, 2015
Samar Padmaker Halarnkar
Kalpana Jain, NF ’09, teaches girls in India to report stories the media misses

Kalpana Jain, NF ’09, teaches girls in India to report stories the media misses

This summer, in the villages of north India, I trained rural young women, ages 15 to 22, in the skills of journalism so they could claim their own voices and…
December 12, 2014
Kalpana Jain

Cristian Lupsa, NF ’14, on narrative’s inroads in Romania

In Romania, there is little tradition of deeply reported, well-told true stories, partly a result of an immature media culture, partly a symptom of 40-plus years of communism that has…
December 12, 2014
Cristian Lupșa
Lorie Conway, NF ’94, tells the story of Beatrice Mtetwa, defender of justice

Lorie Conway, NF ’94, tells the story of Beatrice Mtetwa, defender of justice

Human rights lawyer Mtetwa continues to speak out despite being arrested and imprisonedA film about Beatrice Mtetwa, the internationally known, hard-charging human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, was a natural.What was…
December 10, 2014
Lorie Conway
Behind the Data Curtain

Behind the Data Curtain

In my first reporting job out of college, I traveled across Communist Eastern Europe and wrote travel guidebooks. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I obtained my secret police…
September 11, 2014
Adam Tanner