Maciek Nabrdalik is a Chisomo Ngulube is a chief Jason Rezaian is a staff writer Mary Louise Schumacher is Alisa Sopova is a producer and Marcela Turati is a Mexican Warsaw-based documentary editor for television news at the for The Washington Post and one the art and architecture critic for reporter for international media investigative journalist specializing photographer and member of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, of the few Western journalists to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in in Ukraine, working closely with in coverage of the drug war. In 2007, the VII Photo Agency who focuses where she has overseen the have been based in Tehran in recent Wisconsin. A decade ago, she The New York Times. As a part of a she co-founded Periodistas de a Pie, on sociological changes in production of news programs for years. From 2009 until 2014, he developed Art City, a multiplatform NYT Magazine team, she participated a grassroots network that supports Eastern Europe. His work has the past six years. She focuses on covered a wide range of stories that program for the coverage of art, in the creation of the virtual reality and trains reporters covering armed been published in Smithsonian, business and development stories, often sought to explain Iran to a architecture and urban design. As project “The Displaced,” which conflict and defends freedom of L’Espresso, Stern, Newsweek and particularly as they affect women. general American audience, first as experiments in social journalism examines the plight of millions of speech. Her book “Crossfire” The New York Times and has Before joining MBC, she worked a freelancer and later as the Post’s go, it has stood the test of time people forced to leave their homes examines the human cost of the been exhibited internationally. His for Malawi’s Nation Newspapers Tehran bureau chief. His subjects more than most. It features a regular due to war and persecution. She extreme violence. Her awards include two books are “The Irreversible,” as a reporter, senior reporter and included Iran’s nuclear negotiations newspaper column, a community began covering war in 2014, when the Louis M. Lyons for Conscience about his coverage of German Nazi copy editor. She was awarded a with global powers, sanctions and of contributing writers, short films, military conflict disrupted her country. and Integrity in Journalism and the camp survivors worldwide, and scholarship to study media environmental issues, In July 2014 podcasts, other multimedia and live From 2006-2014, she worked as Gabriel García Márquez Award for “Homesick,” which summarizes his management at Rhodes University Rezaian and his wife were detained events. Schumacher has one of the a journalist and news editor for Journalistic Excellence. She has long-term project chronicling the in South Africa and graduated in in their home and he went on to largest social media followings of Donbass, the largest newspaper and spoken at the United Nations and in consequences of the Chernobyl 2014. She also has participated in spend 546 days unjustly imprisoned any arts journalist in the nation and news website in the Donetsk region many countries about the challenges disaster. His awards include honors the Women’s Edition program for in Tehran’s Evin Prison before being is working on a documentary film of Ukraine. Sopova is Harvard’s first facing the Mexican press. She from World Press Photo, NPPA and leading women journalists interested released in January 2016. about the lives of art critics. Ukrainian Nieman Fellow. additionally runs an investigative Pictures of the Year International. in health and development issues. website on migrant massacres.
Jeneé Osterheldt is a lifestyle Karin Pettersson is the Subina Shrestha is a Kathmandu- Robert Socha is a deputy Heidi Vogt is the Nairobi-based and culture columnist at The political editor-in-chief at based filmmaker and correspondent executive producer for two television East Africa correspondent for If you would like to invite Kansas City Star. She joined the Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s biggest who focuses on human rights, programs at TVN, the leading The Wall Street Journal. She has one of the fellows to speak or paper in 2001 as an intern covering daily newspaper. She is also the social issues and political changes broadcaster in Poland. He has covered South Sudan’s descent into participate in a campus event, music before moving on to intern co-founder and former editor-in- in her native Nepal. From covering worked as an investigative reporter civil war, the rise of radical Islam please contact Nieman for The Contra Costa Times in chief of Fokus, Sweden’s leading Nepal’s 2015 earthquake and its and created and produced dozens on the continent, the illegal wildlife communications officer California and The Pioneer Press newsmagazine. During her time at aftermath to reporting undercover in of TV documentaries on topics trade and corruption that has Ellen Tuttle at 617.495.2342 or in Minnesota. She returned to the Fokus, the publication won one of Myanmar during Cyclone Nargis and ranging from judicial corruption and bedeviled the region’s efforts to [email protected]. Star in 2002 as a music critic and Sweden’s most prestigious awards investigating child slavery, she has pharmaceutical lobbying to a bribery rise out of poverty. She joined the nightlife columnist. In 2008, she for reinventing political journalism. told award-winning stories about the scandal involving an official who Journal in 2013 after 10 years with Cover portrait of Agnes Wahl Nieman transitioned to lifestyle column At Aftonbladet, she has quadrupled effects of natural and human-made awarded sensitive government IT The Associated Press, where she by Alexandra Garcia, NF ’13 writing. Entertainment is still a the readership of the editorial disasters. Her films have been contracts worth millions of dollars first covered financial news in part of her beat, but on most days page and started a new digital broadcast by Al Jazeera, the BBC, to three U.S. tech companies. He New York before working as a she is a culture critic, covering brand for editorial journalism online. ITN and Arte and at festivals around wrote a book on media law and also foreign correspondent in West everything from Rachel Dolezal to Pettersson won the European the world. For her Nepal earthquake authored a nonfiction book on the Africa and Afghanistan. Her #OscarsSoWhite. The NAACP of Newspaper Award for a series about coverage, she received a special mysterious abduction of a young reporting interests include topics Olathe honored her as a diversity Roma people in Stockholm. She is commendation from the Association businessman. He earned a law ranging from extremism, conflict 2016-2017 NIEMAN FELLOWS advocate on MLK Day 2016. the 2017 Nieman Berkman-Klein of International Broadcasters and degree from Jagiellonian University and migration to globalization, tech Fellow in Journalism Innovation. other honors. in Kraków in 2002. frontiers and natural resources. FROM THE CURATOR ANN MARIE LIPINSKI
When Agnes Wahl Nieman endowed the Nieman Foundation for Jassim Ahmad is the head of Michelle Boorstein for the past Tyler Dukes is an investigative Christian Feld is a Brussels-based Nkem Ifejika is a presenter on Roland Kelts is an author, Journalism, she launched a Harvard effort to “promote and elevate multimedia innovation at Reuters in decade has covered religion for The reporter on the state politics team correspondent for the German the BBC World Service “Newsday” journalist and lecturer. For the past the standards of journalism and educate persons deemed specially London, working across disciplines Washington Post, where she writes at WRAL News in Raleigh, N.C., public TV network ARD. For the last program, which reaches millions 16 years, he has written from Japan to advance digital journalism. He for and edits its religion vertical where he specializes in data and five years, he has contributed to of listeners each week. He joined and the United States for The New qualified for journalism.” With simple and elegant intent, so began has produced editorial products in Acts of Faith. She defines her beat public records. Prior to joining Germany’s leading news program the BBC in London in 2006, and Yorker, Time, The New York Times, the fellowship program that for 79 years has invited a group of a variety of forms from apps to broadly to include everything from WRAL, he worked as managing “Tagesschau,” covering various has worked across several desks The Christian Science Monitor, accomplished and promising journalists for a year of study at interactives, including The Wider theology and spirituality to ethics. editor for Duke University’s crises facing the European Union. including global news and current Newsweek Japan, The Yomiuri and Harvard. What started as a fellowship for U.S. journalists expanded Image, a platform for visual She previously served as a roving Reporters’ Lab. He has taught at In his documentary “The Miracle affairs and business. He has covered The Japan Times. He covers culture, to include international candidates and this year welcomes a class journalism that interweaves media feature writer for the Post, covering UNC-Chapel Hill’s journalism school, of Brussels,” he followed the stories such as the early days of media and East-West issues. Kelts of 23 from across the globe. The fellows come with study plans and information. His multimedia outside-the-beltway Virginia. trained reporters as a college negotiations on Europe’s new data the #BringBackOurGirls campaign has interviewed and written about documentaries include Emmy- Boorstein also worked as a newspaper adviser and freelanced protection laws. With a background in Nigeria and President Obama’s Japanese writers, film directors designed to enhance their expertise and return them to journalism nominated narratives about the war correspondent for The Associated for several newspapers. At WRAL, in political and computer science, visit to Kenya. Before joining the and artists as well as the aftermath better prepared to understand and interpret a complex world. in Iraq, the global financial crisis Press in New England, Arizona, his writing on a mentally ill inmate’s he is interested in the intersection BBC, Ifejika worked as a freelance of Japan’s natural and nuclear In addition to their academic studies at Harvard, the fellows are and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. New York City and East Africa, and death earned him awards from of tech and policy. Prior to his journalist for publications including disasters. He also has spoken at actively engaged in Nieman Foundation master classes, seminars Ahmad previously established as a foreign editor. The Religion the Radio Television Digital News posting in Brussels, he worked for The Guardian and the New the World Economic Forum and and conferences that strengthen their ability to lead, create and Reuters’ program of books and Newswriters Association twice Association of the Carolinas and the ARD in Cologne, New York, Paris Statesman. He began his career as TED Talks and is the author of innovate across journalistic platforms. installations, chronicling world events awarded her its Religion Reporter National Alliance on Mental Illness and Warsaw. In 2010, he received an undercover television reporter “Japanamerica: How Japanese and contemporary issues. of the Year prize, in 2011 and 2013. North Carolina. an RIAS Fellowship. for Channel 4 and the BBC. Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.” While at Harvard, the fellows also serve as resources through a variety of collaborations. Recent fellows have co-authored papers with faculty, led seminars, taught, given classroom lectures and served as mentors to students. The experience found in this year’s class of fellows represents an important campus asset we hope you take advantage of throughout the academic year.
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 not only of individual journalists but of journalism more is a general is a Berlin-based is the northern is a New is an editor of is the broadly. We thank you in advance for your support of the Nieman Lolly Bowean Georg Diez Felicia Fonseca Katherine Goldstein Kim Kyoungtae Brady McCollough assignment reporter and writer reporter and columnist covering Arizona correspondent for The York City-based digital journalist a prime-time news program at the projects reporter for sports and class of 2017. at the Chicago Tribune, where politics and culture for the Associated Press, covering American who most recently was the editor Seoul-based Munhwa Broadcasting news at the Pittsburgh Post- she focuses on the city’s unique German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Indian tribes, mining, the Grand of vanityfair.com. Previously, she Corporation (MBC), one of two Gazette, specializing in narrative African-American community, He began his career in 1998 as a Canyon, tourism and major crimes. served as the director of traffic nationwide television networks in nonfiction and human-interest youth culture, urban affairs, cultural theater critic for Munich’s Before joining the AP in 2005, and social media strategy at South Korea. He previously served reporting. In the past two years, THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD trends and other topics. She has Süddeutsche Zeitung and later she worked as an intern for The Slate, and as the green editor at as editor of MBC’s international his stories have taken him to Russia, educates leaders in journalism and elevates the standards of the written about the destruction of joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Albuquerque Tribune, the Santa Fe The Huffington Post, where she news department and online Cuba and the Dominican Republic. profession through special programs that convene scholars and experts public housing, the death of Nelson Sonntagszeitung as a culture editor. New Mexican and for the Spanish- established HuffPost Green as the news division. He also worked as McCollough previously covered in all fields. More than 1,500 accomplished and promising journalists Mandela and the work of civil He also has written about literature language newspaper La Voz del leading internet news source for a reporter for 18 years, mainly the University of Kansas athletic from 94 countries have been awarded Nieman Fellowships since 1938. rights icons as well as the election for Die Zeit in Hamburg and Norte. In 2010, she received The eco-minded readers. In addition to covering politics and diplomacy. department for The Kansas City The foundation’s other initiatives include Nieman Reports, a quarterly of President Barack Obama and reported and wrote essays for the Associated Press-Robert Eunson her editorial, strategy and managerial He has visited North Korea seven Star. His work has been recognized print and online magazine that covers thought leadership in journalism; violence in troubled neighborhoods. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. He Distinguished Lecturer Award from roles, she has covered topics ranging times and worked as an MBC as a “top 10” winner 11 times in the Nieman Journalism Lab, a website that reports on the future of news, Before joining the Tribune, Bowean is a co-founder of the experimental Northern Arizona University for from the Copenhagen climate correspondent in Beijing for three Associated Press Sports Editors covered suburban communities for journalism platform 60pages, an her stories about wild fires, flooding talks to the first gay wedding on a years. Kim was honored with annual writing contest. He has been innovation and best practices in the digital media age; and Nieman The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. international network of writers, in a tribal village, a deadly sweat military base. Her research interests the Korea Journalist Award for honored by the National Headliner Storyboard, a website that showcases exceptional narrative journalism She additionally has written for The artists, thinkers and scientists lodge ceremony and 8-year-old boy include gender disparities in digital his investigative reporting on a Awards and has received notable and explores the future of nonfiction storytelling. Washington Post, The Wall Street that publishes e-books, long-form charged in a double homicide. newsrooms and the ways female corruption scandal involving a mention three times in the “Best Journal and The Boston Globe. journalism, reportage and fiction. leadership affects news coverage. state-operated railway company. American Sports Writing” series. One Francis Avenue j Cambridge, MA 02138 j 617.495.2237 j www.nieman.harvard.edu