Short Takes

Pinned for your storytelling pleasure, a roundup of recent great reads, vids, tips, etc.:In case you missed it, Part 1: Gay Talese and Elon Green annihilated Storyboard traffic records this…

Robert CaroNieman Class of 1966The bestselling biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Caro has won every major literary prize — some of them, such as the Pulitzer, twice. In 2010,…

Anne HullClass of 1995A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army…

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…