Niemans @ Work Lorie Conway, NF ’94, tells the story of Beatrice Mtetwa, defender of justice A film about Beatrice Mtetwa, the internationally known, hard-charging human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe, was a natural. What was fortuitous is that it took root in Lippmann House. I co-produced the… December 10, 2014 Lorie Conway 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 Caught in the Crossfire Over the past year, Holly Williams, NF ’08, a correspondent for CBS News, has covered conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine. Earlier this summer she made her first trip to Gaza:On… September 11, 2014 Holly Williams Film as Long-form There should be a recovery group for what I am: an author of nonfiction books, born in the 1970s. Yet I received shared Emmy and National Magazine Award nominations in… September 11, 2014 Alissa Quart Covering the Home Front 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 government’s… July 17, 2014 Sangar Rahimi From Chile, with Thanks 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… July 17, 2014 Paula Molina Heart of Darkness 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,… July 17, 2014 Margot Adler Keeping the Faith 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… February 13, 2014 George Abraham Make an Entrance 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… January 29, 2014 Blair Kamin Telling Malala’s Story 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… January 29, 2014 Christina Lamb Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 Next
