Niemans @ Work

Live-Blogging the Stock Market: Deb Price, NF ’11, is leading a team at South China Morning Post to offer news average readers can use

Live-Blogging the Stock Market: Deb Price, NF ’11, is leading a team at South China Morning Post to offer news average readers can use

Why are Chinese breweries trading up today? The question came in an email from a reader of the South China Morning Post’s new live stocks blog. The blog has transformed…
April 22, 2019
Deb Price
“Like a Box of Chocolates”: For Elaine Shannon, NF ’75, knowing when to change course paid off with a new book

“Like a Box of Chocolates”: For Elaine Shannon, NF ’75, knowing when to change course paid off with a new book

I went into journalism because it’s like a box of chocolates.  If you know what you’re going to get, that takes all the fun out of it.“Hunting LeRoux: The Inside…
April 5, 2019
Elaine Shannon
From Threatened Censorship to Box Office Hit: Many Colombians rallied behind a documentary by Margarita Martinez, NF ’09, about the long difficult path to peace

From Threatened Censorship to Box Office Hit: Many Colombians rallied behind a documentary by Margarita Martinez, NF ’09, about the long difficult path to peace

I was ready for the premiere of my film. For five years, I’d been working on a behind-the-scenes documentary about the torturous and ultimately successful negotiations between the Colombian government…
January 22, 2019
Margarita Martinez

The five-hour work day? She’s got it covered: Financial Times columnist Pilita Clark, NF ’97, takes on the modern workplace

Did you know it sometimes helps to work when slightly drunk?What about the companies asking their staff to work five-hour days for the same pay? Or the idea that office smokers are…
November 14, 2018
Pilita Clark
“I can’t imagine our community without the Advocate”: Editor and publisher Chris Cobler, NF ’06, prioritizes holding local officials accountable while pushing to keep 172-year-old paper on sound financial footing

“I can’t imagine our community without the Advocate”: Editor and publisher Chris Cobler, NF ’06, prioritizes holding local officials accountable while pushing to keep 172-year-old paper on sound financial footing

Our family-owned newspaper, the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, is an exception to the corporate media strategy of squeezing out every last cent of the brand until it has no value left.…
November 8, 2018
Chris Cobler
 “An Orgy of Mass Murder”: In a new book, James M. Scott, NF ’07, investigates World War II atrocities in the Philippines

 “An Orgy of Mass Murder”: In a new book, James M. Scott, NF ’07, investigates World War II atrocities in the Philippines

In February 1945, during the Battle of Manila, Japanese troops committed one of the worst massacres of World War II, slaughtering tens of thousands of Filipino men, women, and children…
October 30, 2018
James M. Scott
"Money Stories are People Stories": After decades as a business journalist, Marilyn Geewax, NF '95, turns to teaching to inspire the next generation

“Money Stories are People Stories”: After decades as a business journalist, Marilyn Geewax, NF ’95, turns to teaching to inspire the next generation

Except for my Nieman year, I had been staring down deadlines every work day since age 22. So after four decades of newsroom stresses, I moved back to Atlanta, where…
June 25, 2018
Marilyn Geewax

Investing in the Next Crop of Promising Media Companies: Maya Baratz Jordan, a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on key ingredients for success and openings in a new accelerator program

After years of building digital products for companies ranging from Flickr to The Wall Street Journal to ABC News, I made a move to the investing side to help support…
March 26, 2018
Maya Baratz Jordan

In the Transformation to an Information Company, Bringing in Substantial Revenue: Chronicle of Higher Education editor in chief Michael Riley, NF ’95, leads a team creating in-depth reports that are a new revenue stream

I spend many of my waking hours—and some of my sleeping hours, too—thinking about how best to ensure the health and long-term growth of The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc.,…
March 2, 2018
Michael Riley

Identifying Mexico’s Missing Persons: Sandra Barrón Ramírez, a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, is designing a universal data standard to organize information about missing persons in Mexico

In February 2015, Justicia Cotidiana (“Everyday Justice”) hosted a hackathon for journalists, developers, and designers in Mexico City, Mexico. It was there that I first heard the term “black figure”…
February 12, 2018
Sandra Barrón Ramírez