Christine Mungai is the Nneka Nwosu Faison is a João Pina is a Portuguese María Ramírez is a Spanish Mat Skene is the executive Bonny Symons-Brown Nairobi-based editor of Africapedia, Boston-based news reporter and photographer who has worked in reporter and entrepreneur who producer of Al Jazeera’s joined the Australian Broadcasting a web publication that features producer for WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” Latin America, Afghanistan, Libya, works in New York and Madrid. award-winning current affairs Corporation in 2013. She has worked data on key trends and major program. Her shows focus on issues Egypt, Ivory Coast and Mozambique. She writes about U.S. politics for program “Fault Lines.” Under his in radio and TV news and was most issues in the news in Africa. Her affecting minorities and millennials, He is a regular contributor to The Univision and co-founded Politibot, management, the show has covered recently the supervising producer journalism career began in 2010 from life expectancy disparities New Yorker, The New York Times, a chatbot that delivers messages a range of topics, including Haiti’s of “The Drum,” a political talk show at The East African newspaper, among racial groups to the student The Washington Post, Le Monde, about political developments in cholera epidemic, human trafficking providing analysis of the day’s where she reported on politics, debt crisis. Nwosu also teaches El País and Stern. His first book Spain, the rest of Europe and the on U.S. military bases and the fallout biggest stories. Previously Symons- security, business, culture and digital journalism at Emerson features the stories of 25 former United States. She previously worked of President Trump’s proposed Brown was based in Jakarta and the arts. In 2014, she joined the College. She previously worked as a Portuguese political prisoners. His as a correspondent for the Spanish travel ban. A U.K. citizen, he has anchored a daily news program Mail & Guardian Africa, where multimedia journalist at WTNH-TV second book, “Condor,” deals with daily El Mundo, and was part of been based in Washington, D.C., on Indonesian television. Her she reported from a pan-African in Connecticut and as an anchor/ a military operation designed to the founding team of the startup since 2008. Before that, he worked career started in the Australian perspective with a heavy focus reporter at WPRI-TV and WNAC-TV destroy opposition to dictatorships El Español. Ramírez is the co-author in Malaysia for Al Jazeera’s current parliamentary press gallery for the on data-driven reporting. She is in Rhode Island. She is studying how in South America in the 1970s. Pina of three books about U.S. politics. affairs program “101 East.” He is AAP wire service. She is studying studying the relationship between broadcast news stations can utilize is studying archival photography She is studying how to develop studying how the conventions of the intersection of Islam, democracy torture, silence and repression social media video as a storytelling and the way its juxtaposition personalized tools to reach an Western television media have led and human rights, drawing and how that affects a country’s and revenue tool and how journalists with current images can increase audience skeptical about media in to a dominant form of storytelling comparisons between Indonesia political imagination and media can use social media to engage storytelling impact and outreach. the age of populism and fake news. in journalism and will explore new and the rest of the Muslim world. reporting. diverse audiences. alternatives.

Frederik Obermaier is an Michael Petrou is a Canadian Emily Rueb, a reporter for Shalini Singh is a New Delhi-based Lauren N. Williams is the features Edward Wong is an international investigative reporter for the journalist who writes for OpenCanada, The New York Times, writes and features reporter. She has worked editor for Essence. She assigns correspondent for The New York Munich-based Süddeutsche the National Post, iPolitics, CBC and produces New York 101, a multimedia for the Indian newsmagazine and edits articles, profiles and Times who served as the Beijing Zeitung, Germany’s largest daily. The Walrus. He has reported from column explaining infrastructure. The Week and, prior to that, reported special reports on topics including bureau chief and China correspondent He is one of the two reporters first across Europe, the Middle East and At the Times, she pioneered new for the Hindustan Times. She also reproductive rights, gun violence, from 2008 to 2016. He has reported contacted by the anonymous source Central Asia and is the author of two approaches to storytelling for the was a fellow at the New Delhi-based politics, public health and social across Asia, including in Afghanistan, of the Panama Papers, the leaked books: “Renegades: Canadians in breaking news blog, City Room, Centre for Science and Environment justice. She also manages Essence’s North Korea and Myanmar. He also documents that prompted a global the Spanish Civil War” and “Is This where she covered Hurricane Sandy and has reported widely on career, finance and technology covered the Iraq War from 2003 investigation involving hundreds of Your First War? Travels Through the and major elections, and created a environmental issues. Singh is a content. Before Essence, Williams to 2007 as a Baghdad-based journalists. That reporting earned a Post-9/11 Islamic World.” Petrou niche writing about avian life. She founding member of the worked at More and Marie Claire, correspondent. He joined the Times Pulitzer Prize. Obermaier is member has a Ph.D. in modern history. He is also edited Metropolitan Diary. Rueb CounterMedia Trust and a regular where she wrote news articles and in 1999 and reported for the business, of the International Consortium of studying the media environment in has contributed to The Financial contributor to the People’s Archive lifestyle and culture features. She is metro and sports desks before Investigative Journalists and is the the contested political spaces of Times, BBC Scotland, Time Out of Rural India. At Harvard, she is studying the historic contributions going overseas. Wong has taught author of several books including Eastern Europe and the Middle East; Paris and Cleveland Magazine. working to expand this multimedia of black women to American society, at Princeton University as a Ferris “Panama Papers.” He is studying how Russia and Western nations She is studying the evolution of digital repository of information with a focus on how they have Professor of Journalism. He is how to probe the global implications try to shape accepted narratives; public works in the United States about the lives, languages and shaped culture, and will develop a studying the rise and fall of modern of tax havens, with a focus on the and democratizing opportunities to understand how infrastructure cultures of the 833 million people in new journalistic digital platform empires, their strategies for shaping 2017-2018 NIEMAN FELLOWS role of banks, lawyers, wealth presented by new technologies investment will impact cities India’s countryside who are largely that prioritizes their experiences. the world and the consequences managers and consulting firms. and media platforms. and citizens. ignored by the mainstream media. of their declines. FROM THE CURATOR ANN MARIE LIPINSKI

As we welcome our 80th class of fellows, the mission of the Tristan Ahtone is a New Maryclaire Dale is a legal affairs Sebastián Escalón is a Glenda M. Gloria is the managing Sipho Kings is the Mail & Lisa Lerer is a national political Nieman Foundation for Journalism has rarely been more urgent. Mexico-based journalist who most reporter for The Associated Press. reporter who most recently covered editor and co-founder of Rappler, Guardian’s environment reporter. writer at The Associated Press, Our benefactor, Agnes Wahl Nieman, endowed this program to recently served as a features reporter Her career has taken her from labor environmental issues, resource the leading social news network He focuses on the ways human where she was a lead reporter covering indigenous affairs for strikes in the West Virginia coalfields extraction and human rights for the in the Philippines. After working and industrial expansion affect covering the 2016 U.S. presidential “promote and elevate the standards of journalism and educate Al Jazeera America. He has reported to a Caribbean murder trial to the Guatemalan online magazine Plaza as a reporter for local and foreign vulnerable people and the race and its aftermath. She has persons deemed specially qualified for journalism.” With simple for “PBS NewsHour,” “Frontline,” sexual assault trials of Catholic Pública. In 2013, he was part of the publications covering politics, environment and has covered topics reported in Washington for 10 and elegant intent, so began the distinguished fellowship that “National Native News,” Fusion, priests and actor Bill Cosby. Her team that covered the trial of Efraín conflicts, rebel movements and ranging from the impact of climate years, covering the White House, since 1938 has invited some of the world’s most accomplished and Wyoming Public Radio, Fronteras work unsealing Cosby’s decade-old Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s ex-dictator the military, she went on to run change on droughts and coastal elections, Congress and lobbying promising journalists for a year of Harvard study. Our class of Desk and NPR. A member of the testimony in a confidential legal accused of genocide. Before joining newspaper, magazine, cable news flooding to new safeguards for for the AP, Politico, Businessweek 24 fellows—half from the U.S. and half from abroad—will undertake Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Ahtone settlement led to his arrest and felony Plaza Pública, he was a science and online newsrooms. She received fragile ecosystems. He also has and Bloomberg News. Her work is vice president of the Native trial. Dale covered the $1 billion writer at Le journal du CNRS in a MacArthur grant for “Under reported on the impact of air has also been published in The work designed to enhance their expertise and return them to American Journalists Association settlement of NFL concussion claims, Paris. A citizen of both France and the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in pollution on human health. Now Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Slate, journalism better prepared to understand and interpret a complex and is a contributing editor at High from the filing of the first lawsuits El Salvador, Escalón is the first Mindanao,” the book she co-authored based in South Africa, he was born Fortune and The American Lawyer, world. In addition to their academic studies at Harvard, the fellows Country News. He is studying how through the U.S. Supreme Court Salvadoran to receive a Nieman with 1987 Nieman Fellow Marites in Swaziland and is the first Nieman where she covered business and are actively engaged in Nieman Foundation master classes, to improve coverage of indigenous appeal. She is studying how Fellowship. He is studying the Dañguilan Vitug. Gloria is studying Fellow to come from that nation. legal issues. She has reported from seminars and conferences that strengthen their ability to lead, communities with a particular journalists can improve coverage Alliance for Prosperity Plan, a the evolution of journalism and He is studying how Africa’s carbon 45 of the 50 U.S. states. Lerer is create and innovate during a challenging time in journalism’s history. focus on creating ethical guidelines, of sexual violence as more victims new policy trying to address the democracy and the changing emitters plan to lower their studying how distrust of major protocols and codes of conduct. come forward. migration crisis in Guatemala, relationship between journalists, emissions and help populations societal institutions is reshaping On campus, the fellows also may serve as resources through a El Salvador and Honduras. citizens and democratic institutions. adapt to the changing climate. American politics. variety of collaborations. Recent fellows have co-authored papers with faculty, led seminars, given classroom lectures and served as mentors to students. The experience found in this year’s class represents an important asset we hope you take advantage of throughout the year.

On behalf of Nieman, I extend my gratitude to those faculty and others who have been so generous with their time and expertise over the long life of this program. You have advanced the work not only of individual journalists but of journalism more broadly. We is a senior writer is a reporter for Lenka Kabrhelova is a U.S. is director is a senior writer thank you in advance for your support of the Nieman class of 2018. Emily Dreyfuss Dustin Dwyer Matthew Karolian Jamieson Lesko is a London- Diana Marcum at Wired, where she explores the Michigan Radio, where he has correspondent for Czech Radio. of audience engagement at based producer at NBC News. for the Los Angeles Times, where ways technology shapes society. covered economics and work She previously worked as a Czech The Boston Globe, where he She has reported from 25 countries she has worked since 2011. Her At Wired, she has taken on many opportunities for more than a Radio correspondent in Russia, oversees strategies to bring the across network, cable and digital portraits of people in the drought- roles, from news editor to opinion decade. He reported on the auto where she reported on political, newsroom’s journalism closer to platforms on terrorism, geopolitics stricken towns of California’s editor to cybersecurity editor. In industry in the years leading up to social, economic and cultural readers. During his tenure, the and war, including serving as NBC’s Central Valley won a 2015 Pulitzer THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION FOR JOURNALISM AT HARVARD 2016, she edited Wired’s national the bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler, stories, including the 2008 Russian- Globe’s social audiences have grown Kabul bureau chief. Previously, she Prize. She started her journalism educates leaders in journalism and elevates the standards of the affairs coverage of the U.S. and his reports have frequently Georgian war, political trials and to more than two million followers was an executive producer at career as an editorial assistant profession through special programs that convene scholars and experts presidential election. Dreyfuss aired on NPR and “Marketplace.” street protests in Moscow and and its reporting has expanded to MSNBC, where she led primetime and later a reporter at the San in all fields. More than 1,500 accomplished and promising journalists previously worked as a senior For the past five years, Dwyer has developments in other post-Soviet new platforms such as Facebook shows through periods of record Bernardino Sun. She also worked from 96 countries have been awarded Nieman Fellowships since 1938. editor at CNET, where she wrote participated in the State of nations. She additionally worked as Instant Articles and Apple News. ratings growth. She has covered a as a reporter and columnist at The The foundation’s other initiatives include Nieman Reports, a quarterly commentary and ran social media. Opportunity project, which uses a presenter and reporter in the Karolian got his start in journalism wide range of events, from the 9/11 Fresno Bee. Marcum’s book about print and online magazine that covers thought leadership in journalism; Her writing has appeared in The longform narrative reporting to tell Czech section of the BBC World as a stringer for C-SPAN during the and 2015 Paris attacks to Europe’s the diaspora of Azoreans who return Service in Prague and in London. Nieman Lab, a website that reports on the future of news, innovation Week and on theatlantic.com. As the stories of disadvantaged families 2008 presidential primaries in migration crisis and Libya’s Arab to the islands each summer will the 2018 Nieman-Berkman Klein and children in Michigan. He is She is studying the polarization of New Hampshire, covering everything Spring uprising. Lesko is studying be published in May 2018. She is and best practices in the digital media age; and Nieman Storyboard, a Fellow in Journalism Innovation, studying the connection between the media environment and ways from house parties to victory the intersection between truth, studying the impact of true stories website that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores she is examining how the internet work and personal identity and to engage diverse audiences in a speeches. He is studying the impact political persuasion, perception and on people and cultures as well as the future of nonfiction storytelling. and social media change the way examining the upheavals that come climate of eroding trust. of artificial intelligence on how trust in mainstream media. the divide between urban and

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