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…

Gene WeingartenNieman Class of 1988Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best writer in American journalism,” as one profiler once…

Alma GuillermoprietoNieman Class of 2005Guillermoprieto writes about Latin America for The New Yorker, and for the New York Review of Books and other publications. In 1982, while working as a…

It’s a big day at Lippmann House — the new class of Nieman Fellows arrived this morning, to begin their year at Harvard. And a special year it is. The Nieman Foundation…

The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,…

Fast Company's Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate;…

Detroit Week continues here on Storyboard, with an appearance by radio storyteller Glynn Washington, a Motor City native and host of the hot NPR show Snap Judgment. We recently ran Part 1…

If you’ve been following the recent reports out of Detroit, you know conditions there are dire. This is hardly new. For decades the dominant narrative about the city has been…

Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure:The Recommended board has been especially busy:• Our sister pub Nieman Lab has been engaging in a little summer reading from our Nieman Foundation…