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.