Niemans @ Work

I started working in the media with the hope of bringing change. My main hope was to help my people understand their rights and obligations as citizens, to monitor the…

My Nieman year gave me a strong sense of the truly globalized conversation in which we can all take part. When I returned to Chile, as the host of a…

Right about the time that my late husband was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, I started obsessing on vampire novels. There I was, sitting by my husband’s bedside, pondering mortality,…

The idea for New Canadian Media came to me at the 2009 Nieman Narrative Conference. During a workshop session I met an editor named Andrew Lam who, like me, is…

I think I should just come right out and admit it: I’ve become obsessed with gates. I don’t dream of them, but I fixate on them. Even when the word…

Five years ago when I interviewed a schoolmaster campaigning against Taliban who had taken over his remote mountain valley of Swat in northern Pakistan, I couldn’t imagine how it would…

A soldier in Arkan’s Tigers, a Serbian paramilitary squad responsible for killing thousands, kicks a Bosnian Muslim civilian in Bijeljina, Bosnia in March 1992. Photo by Ron Haviv/VIIIn September 2011,…

Ten years ago I came upon the story of Segundo Villanueva, an impoverished Peruvian who, as a result of his reading of the Bible, concluded that Catholicism was a fraud.…

Pastureland has replaced rainforest along this stretch of the Interoceanic Highway in Brazil. Photo courtesy of CONNECTAS “Who in Latin America would be interested in transnational journalism?” was a question…

Image courtesy of the Newseum A selection of stories by Niemans about the Boston attacksThe explosions at the Boston Marathon made front-page news around the world, with Líberation in Paris,…