Articles

Elizabeth LelandNieman Class of 1992A Charleston, S.C., native and a longtime Charlottean, Leland has written about the Carolinas way of life for more than 25 years. Charlotte Observer readers know and…

Larry L. KingNieman Class of 1970Some years ago, a lucky young newspaper reporter was granted a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard. Her best mentor and former professor gifted[1] her with a…

Doug MarletteClass of 1981The first editorial cartoonist to be named a Nieman Fellow, Marlette won the 1988 Pulitzer, for work that appeared in the Charlotte Observer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.…

Madeleine BlaisNieman Class of 1986Blais won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Zepp’s Last Stand,” a Miami Herald story about a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. She…

Steve OneyNieman Class of 1982Oney spent 17 years reporting and writing a book that ABA Journal in 2011 named one of the 30 books every lawyer must read. And the…

Gwen ThompkinsNieman Class of 2011Thompkins started her journalism career as a reporter and editor at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and then moved into a 15-year run at NPR, first in…

Late summer is carnival season, when fairgrounds across Middle America sprout blooms of creaky steel whirling machines and stands of sugary fried food, jostling us from our languor and threatening…

Amy Ellis NuttNieman Class of 2005A longtime enterprise writer at the Newark Star-Ledger, Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer in feature writing for her narrative series “The Wreck of the Lady…

Cynthia TuckerNieman Class of 1989Tucker spent decades as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and served as the editorial page editor. In 2011, she left the newspaper, to…

Mary SchmichNieman Class of 1996When the Pulitzer committee awarded Schmich the 2012 prize for commentary, jurors cited the strength of her “wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character…