H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger Nieman Class of 1986 Bissinger authored the critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction book Friday Light Nights, which inspired the long-running television series by the same name. He … Read more
Larry L. King Nieman Class of 1970 Some years ago, a lucky young newspaper reporter was granted a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard. Her best mentor and former professor … Read more
Madeleine Blais Nieman Class of 1986 Blais won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Zepp’s Last Stand,” a Miami Herald story about a dishonorably discharged World … Read more
Amy Ellis Nutt Nieman Class of 2005 A longtime enterprise writer at the Newark Star-Ledger, Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer in feature writing for her narrative series … Read more
Gene Weingarten Nieman Class of 1988 Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best … Read more
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 for Journalism turns 75 in September. Read more
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, Mass., that sank amid … Read more