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Yaakov Katz is the military Chong-ae Lee is senior reporter Paula Molina is the anchor and Betsy O’Donovan is a freelance Jane Spencer is international Beauregard Tromp is a senior reporter and defense analyst for for Seoul Broadcasting System editor of a prime-time program on writer and editor based in Omaha, editor-at-large for Newsweek and field producer for e- Africa, a NIEMAN FELLOWS The Jerusalem Post and the Israel (SBS) in Korea, where she has Cooperativa, Chile’s leading radio Neb., and Durham, N.C. In 2010, The Daily Beast. She was one of the pan-African television news station. correspondent for Jane’s Defence worked since 1995. She was the news station. Since 1999, she has she became the first female editorial founding editors of The Daily Beast in Previously, as Africa correspondent Weekly. He has covered Israeli first female investigative reporter conducted daily interviews and has page editor for The (Durham) 2008 and served as executive editor for Independent , he military operations over the past for the program “News Pursuit” broadcast the news live, covering Herald-Sun and she serves as a until she took a sabbatical early in wrote extensively on conflicts in decade including the pullout from and has covered issues such as drug events such as the aftermath of mentor-editor for The Op-Ed 2012 to travel and write before Burundi, the Democratic Republic the Gaza Strip in 2005, the Second distribution, illegal abortion, the the 2010 Chilean earthquake and Project, a nonprofit effort to increase beginning her Nieman Fellowship. of Congo, Sudan and the Niger Delta. Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation human rights of prostitutes and the tsunami, the miner’s rescue in the diversity of voices in public Prior to launching The Daily Beast, He is co-author of “Hani: A Life Too CELEBRATING Cast Lead in Gaza in 2009. His physical abuse of combat policemen. the Atacama Desert and massive Spencer was a correspondent for commentary. After graduating from Short,” a bestselling biography of YEARS writing focuses on defense planning, Chong-ae has won 19 awards student protests in 2011. With Wake Forest University, she wrote in Hong Kong, liberation fighter Chris Hani, and has intelligence analysis and military including Reporter of the Year from 20 years of experience, and edited for newspapers in North covering environmental issues and been recognized for his narrative on 1938 technology. He co-authored the Association of Korea Molina has been part of both new Carolina, Idaho and Alabama, helped technology in Asia. She was part the outbreak of xenophobic violence 2013 “Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War,” and the Korean Broadcasting Grand and established projects in print, to create the first SportsCenter of a team of reporters that won a in South Africa. He has thrice won which was published in the United Prize. She works on the Future and television and radio. Her radio spin-off on ESPN, and launched a Pulitzer Prize for international the Mondi Shanduka Award for States in May 2012. Originally Vision Desk at SBS, which organizes program has received awards for its weekly in Waxhaw, N.C. reporting in 2007 for coverage of Newspapers and also received the from Chicago, he moved to Israel two annual conferences, the Seoul coverage of poverty, social exclusion She is the Donald W. Reynolds China’s “Naked Capitalism” and Vodacom Journalist of the Year in 1993 and has a law degree Digital Forum and the Future and environmental issues. She holds Nieman Fellow in Community the adverse consequences of the and the CNN MultiChoice African from Bar-Ilan University. Korea Report. a master’s degree in public policy. Journalism. nation’s economic boom. Journalist of the Year Awards.

Jennifer B. McDonald is an editor Souad Mekhennet is a German Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters Mary Beth Sheridan is an editor San Truong (aka Huy Duc) Laura Wides-Muñoz is the at Book Review, reporter and of Turkish photographer based in Dakar, at , where is a freelance journalist based in Hispanic affairs writer for The where she assigns reviews of fiction and Moroccan descent who works Senegal. He began his journalism she has covered homeland security, Ho Chi Minh City who covers Associated Press. Based in Miami, and nonfiction and occasionally for The New York Times, Der Spiegel career as a writer and has covered immigration and diplomacy. She Vietnamese politics. After serving she covers U.S.-Cuba relations, writes. Her beats include linguistics, and ZDF (German television). Since Africa for the past 10 years. He arrived at the Post in 2001 after eight years in the Vietnamese army immigration and Hispanics in race, popular history, dance, science 9/11, she has covered conflicts turned to photography in 2005 11 years as a foreign correspondent as a senior lieutenant, fighting American politics and pop culture. and technology, sex and gender, and terrorist groups in Europe, and received the World Press based in Europe and Latin America against the Chinese in 1979 and She has reported from Cuba and art and media, and graphic novels North Africa and the Middle East. Photo of the Year Award in 2006. for The Associated Press, The Miami against the Khmer Rouge in the Guatemala, where she was a and reportage. Since 2008, she has Mekhennet helped report the “Inside He has since won numerous top Herald and the Los Angeles Times. 1980s, he wrote for leading Fulbright Scholar and covered been on the faculty of the Times’s the Jihad” series for the Times and industry awards for his multimedia She has reported from nearly 50 newspapers in Vietnam including the end of Guatemala’s civil war. Student Journalism Institute, an together with her colleague Don van work and photography and his work countries, including her assignments Tuoi Tre and the Saigon Economic She has won The Associated Press intensive training program for Natta, broke the story of Khaled has been exhibited internationally. for the Post. She was awarded an Times. As a journalist working in a Managing Editors Award for her undergraduate and graduate-level el-Masri, a German-Lebanese man O’Reilly has worked on long-term Overseas Press Club Award for her state-controlled media system, his beat and the Green Eyeshade Award . She joined the Times who had been kidnapped and sent projects in Congo and Afghanistan work in Mexico and was part of guiding principle has been to “push for best political coverage in the as an editor on the national desk in via extraordinary rendition to and is among those profiled in the Washington Post team named as the line, but not cross the line,” southern United States. She also 2005. She was previously an editor Afghanistan. She previously reported the documentary film “Under Fire: a Pulitzer Prize finalist for reporting attacking corruption and promoting has written for The , at The Washington Post and at for The Washington Post and is Journalists in Combat,” which on terrorism. political reform in his homeland. U.S. News & World Report and CNET News.com in San Francisco. the co-author of two books about was shortlisted for a 2012 Until 2010, he published blogosin.org, the Los Angeles Times. She holds Islam and terrorism, which were Academy Award. which was ranked as the most an environmental studies degree published in Germany. popular in Vietnam. from Brown University. MESSAGE FROM THE CURATOR ANN MARIE LIPINSKI

When Agnes Wahl Nieman endowed the Nieman Foundation for David Abel is a staff writer who Laura Norton Amico is founder Karim Ben Khelifa is a Katrin Bennhold is a staff writer Borja Echevarría de la Gándara Alexandra Garcia is a , she and Harvard agreed that it would “promote and elevate covers the environment for The and editor of Homicide Watch, a photojournalist and the co-founder for the International Herald Tribune, is the deputy managing editor at journalist for The Washington Post. the standards of journalism and educate persons deemed specially Boston Globe, where he has worked website for data-driven coverage of and CEO of Emphas.is, a website covering European politics and El País, Spain’s largest daily. Since She reports, shoots and edits for more than a decade. Through violent crime that was recognized as designed to promote crowdfunded from London for the IHT 2010, he has guided his video stories on topics ranging from qualified for journalism.” With simple and elegant intent, so began the the years, he has reported from Latin a notable entry in the 2011 Knight- . For the past and its parent newspaper, The New toward a digital-first strategy, a move health care and immigration to fellowship program that annually selects the most promising journalists America, covering everything from Batten Awards for Innovation in 12 years, he has covered conflicts in York Times. A native German who that allowed El País to become the fashion and education. Awarded for a year of study at Harvard. What started as a fellowship for U.S. dissident movements in Cuba to the Journalism. She has reported for the the Middle East and Africa and other spent most of her career based in most-visited Spanish-language news eight regional Emmy Awards, a journalists eventually expanded to include international candidates rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela; Register-Pajaronian and The Press stories around the world. His work France, Bennhold’s reporting has site. Previously, Echevarría founded national Edward R. Murrow Award and this year welcomes a class of 24 from across the globe. All of the written about national security policy Democrat in California, received a has appeared in The New York Times, covered events ranging from terrorist Soitu.es, a news start-up that and top honors in the National Press fellows come with study plans designed to enhance their expertise in Washington, including a stint New York Times Chairman’s Award, The Washington Post, The Wall Street attacks in Madrid and Algiers to received numerous honors including Photographers Association’s Best covering the war over Kosovo in and held fellowships with the Online Journal, Vanity Fair, Time, Le Monde youth rioting in Paris to rogue trading two Online News Association awards. of contest, she and return them to their news operations better prepared to lead, to the former Yugoslavia; and he has News Association and the Harry and Stern. He has exhibited his at one of France’s biggest banks. He began his newspaper career also was named 2001 “Video Editor innovate and to understand and interpret an increasingly complex explored a range of other subjects Frank Guggenheim Symposium photos on four continents and She also writes a regular column on at El Mundo in 1995, reporting on of the Year” by the White House world. In addition to guiding their academic studies at Harvard, the throughout New England, such on Crime in America. Amico is a has won numerous photography the economics of gender. Before science, social issues and sports News Photographers Association. Nieman Foundation runs programming to further educate the fellows as the politics of academia, the board member of Criminal Justice awards including the 2004 Fujifilm joining the Tribune in 2004, Bennhold prior to serving as sports editor and She has been a teaching assistant about and the revolution in communications through persistence of poverty and the Journalists and writes for The Young Reporter Award. He also was an international economics then international editor and deputy at National Geographic Photo seminars, conferences and professional training. effects of climate change. Abel Crime Report and One Reporter’s was selected for the 2000 World writer for Bloomberg News. She managing editor for online news. Camps in Chad and Botswana also teaches travel writing. Notebook. She is a Nieman-Berkman Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass holds a master’s degree from the He is a Nieman-Berkman Fellow and a judge for the Best of While at Harvard, the fellows also serve as resources to students Fellow in Journalism Innovation. in the Netherlands. London School of Economics. in Journalism Innovation. Photojournalism contest. and faculty through a variety of collaborations. Recent fellows have co-authored papers with faculty, led seminars, given classroom lectures and served as mentors to students. The deep knowledge and experience found in this year’s class of fellows represents an important asset to the Harvard community and beyond.

On behalf of former fellows, I extend my gratitude to those faculty and others who have been so generous with their time and expertise

over the many years of this program. You have advanced the work Brett, age 5 not only of individual journalists but of journalism more broadly. We Brett Anderson is the restaurant Chris Arnold is a Boston-based Ludovic Blecher is executive Jin Deng is a Beijing-based senior Jeneen Interlandi is a health and Blair Kamin has been the thank you in advance for your support of the Nieman class of 2013. critic and a features writer for The NPR correspondent who covers the director and editor-in-chief of editor with Southern Weekly, one science journalist who writes about ’s architecture critic Ann Marie Lipinski Times-Picayune in New Orleans. and the housing market. Liberation.fr, where he has been in of the leading newspapers in China. biomedical research, public health since 1992. He also serves as a His writing has appeared in a variety He joined NPR in 1996 and has charge of the French newspaper’s For the past eight years, she has and environmental science. She contributing editor of Architectural of national publications, including reported on subjects ranging from digital strategy since 2008. He joined covered China’s economic policies has written for The New York Times Record . A graduate of Gourmet, The Washington Post, Katrina recovery in New Orleans to Libération in 2001 as a reporter and and reforms at the regional and Magazine and Scientific American. Amherst College and the Yale School THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD Food & Wine, Salon and Oxford immigrant workers in the fishing was later appointed editor-in-chief national levels as well as the Previously, she spent four years as a of Architecture, Kamin joined the administers one of the most influential fellowship programs for journalists American and has been anthologized industry to new table saws that and oversaw the merger of the print country’s economic rise and its staff writer atNewsweek . In 2009, Tribune as a reporter in 1987 after in the world. Grants are awarded to accomplished professionals who come in eight editions of “Best Food prevent injuries. In 2001, following the and Web staff. His career took a impact on the reshaping of the she received a Kaiser Foundation three years at The Des Moines to Harvard for a year of study. In addition to hosting journalism workshops Writing.” He has won two James Sept. 11 attacks, Arnold contributed new direction when he became international financial order. Fellowship for global health reporting Register. He is the author of two and conferences, the foundation’s other initiatives include Nieman Reports, Beard Foundation Awards and to the NPR coverage in New York that executive director of online media, Previously, she worked as a senior and traveled to Europe and Asia books published by the University a quarterly print and online magazine that explores contemporary challenges additionally was part of a team won Overseas Press Club and George responsible for developing new reporter for The Economic Observer to cover outbreaks of extensively of Chicago Press, “Why Architecture and opportunities in journalism; the Nieman Journalism Lab, a website awarded the 2010 Scripps Howard Foster Peabody Awards. He also forms of journalism and creating a and editorial director for Global drug-resistant tuberculosis. She has Matters: Lessons from Chicago” and that reports on the future of news, innovation and best practices in the Foundation’s Edward J. Meeman earned a 2011 Edward R. Murrow new business model for news. In Entrepreneur magazine. She is worked as a research assistant at “Terror and Wonder: Architecture digital media age; Nieman Storyboard, a website that showcases exceptional Award for Environmental Reporting Award for his series “The Foreclosure 2009, he succeeded in finding a interested in recording events Harvard Medical School and studied in a Tumultuous Age.” Among his and explores the future of nonfiction storytelling; for coverage of the BP oil spill in Nightmare” and the Newspaper new way to monetize high-value in China at the grassroots level, climate change in Alaska. She holds honors are the Pulitzer Prize for and Nieman Watchdog, a project that explores how to monitor and hold the Gulf of Mexico. Anderson also Guild’s 2009 Heywood Broun Award journalism with subscriptions. including the complexities of her master’s degrees in environmental Criticism and the George Polk accountable those who exert power in public life. provided extensive coverage for . He is the Blecher is a member of ePresse, rapidly changing country and the science and journalism, both from Award for Criticism. He is the 2013 of the impact of Hurricane Katrina Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellow a French media consortium. different ideologies that drive Columbia University. Arts and Culture Nieman Fellow. One Francis Avenue j Cambridge, MA 02138 j 617.495.2237 j www.nieman.harvard.edu on food businesses in New Orleans. in . developments there.