Late summer is carnival season, when fairgrounds across Middle America sprout blooms of creaky steel whirling machines and stands of sugary fried food, jostling us from our languor and threatening nausea en masse. Which is, of course, part of their … Read more
Amy Ellis Nutt Nieman Class of 2005 A longtime enterprise writer at the Newark Star-Ledger, Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer in feature writing for her narrative series … Read more
Cynthia Tucker Nieman Class of 1989 Tucker spent decades as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and served as the editorial page editor. In 2011, … Read more
Gene Weingarten Nieman Class of 1988 Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best … Read more
Alma Guillermoprieto Nieman Class of 2005 Guillermoprieto writes about Latin America for The New Yorker, and for the New York Review of Books and other publications. Read more
It’s a big day at Lippmann House — the new class of Nieman Fellows arrived this morning, to begin their year at Harvard. And a special year it is. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism turns 75 in September. Read more
The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester, Mass., that sank amid … Read more
Fast Company‘s Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate; buildings have been famously abandoned; dozens … Read more
Detroit Week continues here on Storyboard, with an appearance by radio storyteller Glynn Washington, a Motor City native and host of the hot NPR show Snap Judgment. We recently ran Part 1 of our conversation with him, about … Read more