Niemans @ Work

Valeria Fernandez, a 2021 visiting fellow, on building a village at a time when the world feels scary and distant We were barely starting the first season of our Spanish-language…

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…

Through intergenerational conversations, 2021 visiting fellow Anjuli Sastry Krbechek highlights how immigrant communities of color grapple with their own identities When I first came up with the idea for “Where…

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…