Niemans @ Work

Jenifer McKim, NF ’08, and Phillip Martin, NF ’98, detail their groundbreaking series, ‘Unseen’ We have reported on the dangerous and troubling world of sex trafficking for nearly two decades,…

Vidya Krishnan, NF ’21, on writing her debut non-fiction book “Phantom Plague”  Dec. 20, 2016, was one of those winter mornings in New Delhi, India when everything was enveloped in…

David Heath, NF ’06, kept digging until he found the scientists behind the mRNA researchIn the pandemic’s early days, I tried to persuade Moderna’s press handlers to give me a…

Jason Rezaian, NF ’17, wanted to tell the story of his release from an Iranian prison from multiple perspectivesIn early fall, Spotify released a podcast series I’ve been working on…

Tennessee Watson, NF ’20, on trying to answer the question: Why do American policymakers continue to invest in incarcerating children?The United States incarcerates kids at substantially higher rates than most…

How conversations over coffee helped Sipho Kings, NF ’18, create The Continent, a weekly that has grown its audience to 15,000 subscribers in 105 countries A good coffee can help…

András Pethő, a 2020 Nieman Fellow, tells a complex story on corruption within the administration of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to a general audience.I knew we were in trouble…

Jasmine Brown, a 2020 Nieman Fellow and a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, on maintaining her faith in journalism through the struggles of the past year.One of my primary beliefs as…

Shaheen Pasha, a 2018 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on starting the Prison Journalism Project and training incarcerated writers to tell stories about their prison community.The first thing I noticed was…

Rania Abouzeid, a 2020 Nieman Fellow, on adapting her book on the Syrian Civil War for a young audience through “Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival…