Articles

J. Anthony LukasNieman Class of 1969Lukas, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is best known for his bestselling 1985 book Common Ground, about school busing and race relations in Boston. In braided…

Kevin CullenNieman Class of 2003A longtime Metro columnist at the Boston Globe, Cullen shared a 2003 Pulitzer for investigative reporting on the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. He…

Julia KellerNieman Class of 1998A former Chicago Tribune reporter and cultural critic, Keller won the 2005 Pulitzer for feature writing, for her “gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second…

Dexter FilkinsNieman Class of 2007A war correspondent and author, Filkins became a New Yorker staff writer in January 2011, after spending more than a decade at the New York Times,…

Craig WelchNieman Class of 2007Welch has been the Seattle Times’ environment writer for the past 13 years, and in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting he recently published…

Rick BraggNieman Class of 1992Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, Bragg reported for the New York Times, mostly as a generalist. He wrote stories about a wide…

Darcy FreyNieman Class of 2011Frey wrote the 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, about inner-city basketball players hoping for athletic scholarships to college, and is a contributing…

Susan OrleanNieman Class of 2004The celebrated author has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1992, and she contributed to the magazine’s Talk of the Town section for five years…

Tommy TomlinsonNieman Class of 2009Tomlinson spent 23 years as a local columnist at the Charlotte Observer, writing the kind of pieces that readers clipped for their scrapbooks and refrigerators. He…

J.R. MoehringerNieman Class of 2001Here’s just some of the telling hardware Moehringer has taken home for his stories: Pulitzer Prize (2000) for feature writing; Pulitzer Prize finalist (1998) for feature…