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Featured Fellow: Dexter Filkins

Featured Fellow: Dexter Filkins

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,…
September 23, 2013
Featured Fellow: Craig Welch

Featured Fellow: Craig Welch

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…
September 23, 2013
Featured Fellow: Susan Orlean

Featured Fellow: Susan Orlean

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…
September 20, 2013
Featured Fellow: Larry L. King

Featured Fellow: Larry L. King

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…
September 9, 2013
Featured Fellow: Mary Schmich

Featured Fellow: Mary Schmich

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…
August 27, 2013
One anniversary, two new features

One anniversary, two new features

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…
August 21, 2013
Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

If you’ve been following 40 Towns, the new literary journalism magazine produced by Jeff Sharlet’s creative nonfiction students at Dartmouth, you’ve seen longform stories about ex-cons, a roadside motel, a…
July 23, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and one Newtown family

Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and one Newtown family

Our Annotation Tuesday! series takes readers line by line through a notable piece of writing — with the author. Occasionally, we bring in a guest annotator. Elon Green, of The…
July 16, 2013
Pinned: Jeff Bauman walks; Alice Gregory reads all of Janet Malcolm; Faulkner talks failure; plus, Tracy Kidder, Evan Ratliff, how to do an oral history narrative, and more

Pinned: Jeff Bauman walks; Alice Gregory reads all of Janet Malcolm; Faulkner talks failure; plus, Tracy Kidder, Evan Ratliff, how to do an oral history narrative, and more

Are you following us on Pinterest? We pin something almost daily, in addition to our regular publishing days here: great reads, useful apps, reporting and writing gear, interviews, timeless pieces…
July 12, 2013
Well hello there.

Well hello there.

Welcome, new readers! Our audience has grown considerably lately, so we thought this might be a good time to recap Storyboard’s goods and services, and to invite you to follow…
June 5, 2013