Uncategorized A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened Our Nieman class, arriving in the fall of 2006, had a contingent of journalists who came to leafy, placid Cambridge from covering Iraq and Afghanistan.For them, the year was in… April 7, 2014 Cameron McWhirter Remembering Anja Niedringhaus Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed April 4 while covering election preparations in Afghanistan, had photographed wars and conflicts for two decades. In 2005, the Associated Press photographer shared a Pulitzer… April 4, 2014 The Making of “Witness Uganda” When he flew to Uganda in 2005, Griffin Matthews was just trying to help some kids at a local orphanage. But he wound up starting his own nonprofit, Uganda Project,… March 27, 2014 Fusion’s Jorge Ramos and America’s Latino Future “Take a hard look,” Jorge Ramos implored his audience, “because you’re looking at a dinosaur.” Ramos wasn’t talking about his 25 years on Univision’s news desk—or about his head of… March 17, 2014 12 Things BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith Thinks You Should Know about Journalism Ben Smith became editor in chief of BuzzFeed in 2011 when the website known for its listicles and cat photos got into the business of breaking news. Smith, an early… February 28, 2014 Scientists, Journalists and the Quest for Objectivity Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert said there is a scientific basis for the advice that mothers give about how to be happy: get married, make money, and have children. The… February 28, 2014 Parsing Politics in China, Egypt, and an Orthodox Jewish Community Harvard law professor Noah Feldman spoke to the 2014 Nieman Fellows about the intense scrutiny and criticism he faced after writing about his work in Tunisia and writing a personal… February 24, 2014 Big Data, Income Mobility, and the American Dream Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty shows a data visualization model that The New York Times created from research he and his colleagues did on income mobility in the United States.… February 14, 2014 Jessie Schanzle Exploring Harvard’s Gates The wrought-iron decoration of the Class of 1881 Gate stands out in silhouette against the blazing white backdrop of Harvard’s neo-classical Littauer Center Students pass through the imposing Class of… January 29, 2014 Urban Ruins and the “New Unconscious” Professor Achille Mbembe, left, spoke with Greg Marinovich and other 2014 Nieman Fellows about the new global condition, in which the south and the north are increasingly entangled. Photo by… January 23, 2014 Jonathan Seitz Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 29 Next
