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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: Tommy Tomlinson

Featured Fellow: Tommy Tomlinson

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…
September 19, 2013
Featured Fellow: J.R. Moehringer

Featured Fellow: J.R. Moehringer

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…
September 18, 2013
Featured Fellow: Buzz Bissinger

Featured Fellow: Buzz Bissinger

H.G. “Buzz” BissingerNieman Class of 1986Bissinger authored the critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction book Friday Light Nights, which inspired the long-running television series by the same name. He also published a…
September 13, 2013
Featured Fellow: Elizabeth Leland

Featured Fellow: Elizabeth Leland

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…
September 11, 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: Madeleine Blais

Featured Fellow: Madeleine Blais

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…
September 5, 2013
Featured Fellow: Steve Oney

Featured Fellow: Steve Oney

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…
September 4, 2013
Featured Fellow: Amy Ellis Nutt

Featured Fellow: Amy Ellis Nutt

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…
August 29, 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