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Featured Fellow: J. Anthony Lukas

Featured Fellow: J. Anthony Lukas

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…
September 26, 2013
Featured Fellow: Julia Keller

Featured Fellow: Julia Keller

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…
September 24, 2013
Featured Fellow: Rick Bragg

Featured Fellow: Rick Bragg

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…
September 23, 2013
Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey

Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey

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…
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: 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