2003 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
December 5 - 7, 2003
Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel
Cambridge, Mass.
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2003 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
December 5 - 7, 2003
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
This year's speakers include Pulitzer and MacArthur winners, young innovators and old-hand teachers who will offer tips, insights and new takes on best narrative practices. Each will offer at least a solo and a panel. There'll be keynote talks, a keynote panel on ethics and attribution, readings, more than 40 breakout sessions and evening cafe sessions. |
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Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist. His work airs on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," Public Radio International's "This American Life," ABC News' "Nightline" and other national programs. He has received four Peabody Awards and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R. Murrow Award. He co-produces "Lost & Found Sound" and many other series, including "Life Stories," a project that gives tape recorders to ordinary people and helps them tell stories about their lives. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He is the executive director of Atlantic Public Media, a nonprofit organization he founded to create two new public radio stations for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in collaboration with WGBH in Boston. He founded online media sites including TRANSOM.org, which brings new voices and stories to public radio, and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org), a new Internet-based system for peer review and distribution of programming.
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Hilton Als writes for The New Yorker. Previously he was a picture editor and staff writer for The Village Voice and editor-at-large at Vibe magazine. He co-wrote the screenplays for "Swoon" and "Looking for Langston," as well as "Don't Explain" with photographer Darryl Turner. His first book, "The Women," a meditation on gender and race and their roles in the forging of personal identity, was published in 1996. Als won a Guggenheim Award for Creative Writing in 2000. In 1997 he won the New York Association of Black Journalists Awards for Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was a senior fellow at the Columbia Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University in 2001.
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We're sorry; Marie Arana has had to cancel for this year. Marie Arana wrote "American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood," a National Book Award finalist as well as a PEN-Memoir finalist. Her most recent book, "The Writing Life," is a collection of her columns and the writing of 55 authors who contributed to the Washington Post series of the same name. She is the editor in chief of Book World at The Washington Post and has served on the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has worked as a publishing executive for Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster Publishers. She has been a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Born in Lima, Peru, and a graduate of Northwestern University, Yale University in China and the British University of Hong Kong, Arana lives in Washington, D.C.
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Jacqui Banaszynski is associate managing editor for special projects at The Seattle Times and a Knight Chair professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. She was a beat and enterprise reporter for almost 20 years before becoming a projects editor. Her "AIDS in the Heartland" series in the St. Paul Pioneer Press won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and the Society of Professional Journalists' national Distinguished Service Award. She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for coverage of African famine and won the Associated Press Sports Editors National Deadline Writing award for a story from the 1988 Summer Olympics. Her work has exposed a fraudulent developer, explored the plight of Kurdish refugees in Iraq and followed a dogsled expedition across Antarctica. She has edited work that won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' best writing award and the Ernie Pyle Award. She is on the visiting faculty of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and Associated Press International, does training workshops around the world and has been a Pulitzer juror.
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DeNeen L. Brown is the Canada bureau chief of The Washington Post, covering Canadian politics and culture. Before moving to Canada, she was a general assignment reporter in the Post's Style section, writing narratives and features. Her story about two young boys -- ages 7 and 8 -- wrongly accused of murder in Chicago was one of five pieces that won the ASNE Award for Nondeadline Writing. Brown joined The Washington Post as a summer intern. She worked as a copy editor on the national, foreign and metro desks. In 1989, she became a general assignment reporter in the Fairfax bureau, where she later covered education and civil and criminal courts. In 1993, she joined the city staff, writing about youth issues. In 1997, Brown moved to the Prince George's County bureau covering education and the rise of the county's affluent African-American middle class. Brown was a Knight Fellow and a Washington Post Media Fellow at Duke University. She has won the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association awards for education reporting, public service and team series.
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Ken Burns has directed and produced many acclaimed documentaries since "Brooklyn Bridge," the 1981 Academy Award-nominated film. "Jazz" -- the third in Burns' trilogy of epic documentaries, which began with "The Civil War" and continued with "Baseball" -- was broadcast on PBS in 2001. This 19-hour film explored the culture, politics and dreams that gave birth to jazz music. Four- and-a-half years in the making and eighteen-and-a half-hours long, "Baseball" looked at the history of the game as a mirror of our society. It became the most-watched series in PBS history, attracting more than 45 million viewers, and won the Television Critics Award for outstanding achievement in sports and special programming. "The Civil War," the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, was honored with more than 40 major film and television awards. Burns' 19 films have garnered him a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Peabody Awards, four Emmy awards and a host of other film and television honors.
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Maria Carrillo is the narrative
editor at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She directs most of the
paper's narrative projects and oversees seven writers, including four
on a narrative team. Her writers have been nominated five times for
Pulitzer Prizes and have been recognized by the ASNE, the American
Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the National Association
of Black Journalists and by River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction
Narrative.
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Jim Collins became the third editor ever of 65-year-old Yankee Magazine in January 2000. Collins had edited Yankee Homes and had been Yankee's field editor, associate editor, senior associate editor and managing editor; and he often wrote articles for the publication. During his reign, Yankee repeatedly was nominated for national magazine awards for general excellence and reporting. He resigned in the fall of 2001 and now writes full-time. A Dartmouth graduate and New Hampshire native, Collins has published in Reader's Digest, Glamour, Geo, This Old House Magazine and Outside, among other magazines and newspapers. He is a columnist and contributing editor for Attache, the in-flight magazine of USAirways. He's also edited the award-winning Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Collins has written two books: "Mentors" (1991) explores the craft and impact of a university's finest teachers. His chronicle of a minor league team's baseball season on Cape Cod, "The Last Best League," will be published in spring 2004 by Da Capo Press. |
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Cornelia Dean, the former science editor of The New York Times, is a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she is working on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American public life. She expects to return to The Times in September 2004 as a writer and commentator. She is the author of "Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches," a critically acclaimed examination of beach erosion and coastal land use on America's maritime shorelines. Dean has taught reporting and editing at the University of Rhode Island and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining the national desk of The Times in 1984, she was a reporter and editor at The Providence Journal for 15 years. In 1985 Dean joined The Times's science department as an assistant editor. She became deputy science editor in 1987 and then deputy Washington editor in 1994. In 1997 Dean was appointed science editor, supervising the newspaper's coverage of science,
medicine and health.
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Lane DeGregory is a features writer at the St. Petersburg Times. She writes about people in the shadows: She went backstage with a middle-aged singer before his band opened for Molly Hatchet. She traced the path of a Pepsi bottle -- and the boy who stuffed a note in it 19 years ago. She hung out with a fugitive, followed Russian orphans, spent a week on a carnival midway with the fat man and the midget. DeGregory's awards include second place, 1999 ASNE Award for deadline reporting; first place, 1999 National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence; and second place, 2000 American Association of Sunday and Features Editors Award, short-features category. In 2001, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill gave her its Outstanding Media Award. Before joining The Times, DeGregory covered news and features for The Virginian-Pilot. She also wrote a travel book: "The Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Outer Banks."
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Jon Franklin's innovative use of narrative in nonfiction won him the first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded in the categories of feature writing (1979) and explanatory journalism (1985). He is one of a few writers to have headed both a journalism program (at Oregon State University) and a creative-writing program (at the University of Oregon). He is the Philip Merrill Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. He is the founder and moderator of WriterL, a subscription-only listserve for writers. His books include "The Molecules of the Mind," "Writing for Story," "Guinea Pig Doctors" with John Sutherland, and "Not Quite a Miracle" and "Shocktrauma" with Alan Doelp.
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Thomas French has been a staff writer at The St. Petersburg
Times for the past 22 years. For the past 15 years he has worked as a
project reporter, specializing in serial narratives. For his work on
"Angels & Demons," he received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for feature
writing. Other projects have included "A Cry in the Night" and "South
of Heaven," both of which were later published as books. French teaches a creative nonfiction M.F.A. course at Goucher College.
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Robert H. Giles was appointed curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 2000 after a career of nearly 40 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. Giles' most recent newspaper assignment was as editor and publisher of The Detroit News, which he joined in 1986 as executive editor. From 1977 to 1986, Giles was executive editor and then editor at the Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y. His newspaper career began in 1958 at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, where he held several reporting and editing positions before becoming managing editor and then executive editor of the newspaper. As managing editor of the Beacon Journal, Giles directed coverage of the campus shootings at Kent State University, for which the newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is a 1955 graduate of DePauw University and in 1956 the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He was a Nieman Fellow in 1966. He received the honorary doctorate in journalism from DePauw in 1996.
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Cynthia Gorney is associate
dean at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of
Journalism and the author of "Articles of Faith: A Frontline History
of the Abortion Wars." She is a former staff writer for The
Washington Post and in recent years has written for the op-ed pages
of The Post and The New York Times, as well as for a variety of
magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine,
American Journalism Review, Mother Jones and O: The Oprah Magazine.
She is a winner of the 1979 ASNE Distinguished Newspaper Writing
Award for features, and her work has been included in "Women in
Journalism," the Poynter Institute's "Best Newspaper Writing 20th
Anniversary Scrapbook," "Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate
Newspapering" and an essay anthology called "Constellations." She
teaches an assortment of reporting and writing courses at U.C.
Berkeley. Recent sideline work has included judging reporting
competitions, hosting a regional National Public Radio interview
program, and leading newsroom and Poynter Institute writing workshops.
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Florence George Graves, a resident scholar at Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center, is an investigative reporter and magazine editor whose work has led to more than a dozen Congressional hearings and government probes and to several reforms in public policies. She has reported for The Washington Post and founded the national investigative journal, Common Cause Magazine. Her work has been honored by numerous awards, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the National Magazine Award for general excellence, the highest award in magazine journalism. Her career has focused on exposing abuses of power. She was one of the reporters who broke the Senator Bob Packwood sexual misconduct allegations that resulted in his forced resignation. Two other investigations exposed how Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr abused his power by relying -- improperly -- on President Clinton's accuser Kathleen Willey and by subpoenaing journalists without following Justice Department guidelines. She has received several fellowships, including ones from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
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Melissa Fay Greene's new book, "Last Man Out," has been called
"a claustrophobic page-turner" and "a tragic triumph." It recounts
the story of underground survivors of the Springhill Mine Disaster of
Nova Scotia in 1958 and of unwanted racial interference from Jim
Crow-era Georgia. Her book "Praying for Sheetrock," the story of the
political awakening of a rural African-American community and the
downfall of a corrupt courthouse gang, was a National Book Award
finalist and a National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist. It also
won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was on the "J List," New
York University's roster of the top 100 works of American journalism
in the 20th century. Her book "The Temple Bombing" is the story of
white, black and Jewish communities in the 1950's Deep South. It was
also a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Southern Book
Critics' Circle Award. Greene has written for The New Yorker,
Newsweek, Life, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post,
Parenting and Good Housekeeping. She and her husband, Don Samuel, a
defense attorney, live in Atlanta with their six children.
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Tom Haines is staff travel writer at The Boston Globe. He spent most of the past decade as a news reporter, including four years at The Seattle Times and then three years freelancing in Europe, where he reported from a Ukrainian coal mine and post-Milosevic Serbia. His reporting about economic change in South Wales won the top prize of the Journalists in Europe Foundation in Paris, where he was a fellow in 2000. As The Globe's travel writer, Haines has covered the plummeting peso in Argentina, guns and cricket in Guyana and a village facing famine in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. Haines recently won the Society of American Travel Writers' top grand award as Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year. Last year, The Globe nominated his work for the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting and for the ASNE Award for nondeadline writing. Two of his articles are on the "Top 100" list in The Best American Travel Writing for 2003.
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David Halberstam has authored
19 books including "The Best and The Brightest," "The Powers That
Be," "The Amateurs," "The Children," "Firehouse" and "The Teammates."
He was a reporter for The Nashville Tennessean and The New York
Times. His stories on the Vietnam War won him the Pulitzer Prize for
international reporting in 1964.
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Jack Hart, a managing editor at The Oregonian, has coached
writing in newsrooms throughout the English-speaking world. He has
edited two Pulitzer Prize-winning stories (and contributed to a third).
He has also edited winners of the ASNE Writing Awards, the Ernie Pyle
Award, the Scripps Howard business-writing award, The Overseas Press
Club Awards, the Headliners awards and the Society of Professional
Journalists feature-writing award. He has taught at five universities,
the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute.
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Bob Herbert joined The New York Times as an op-ed columnist in June 1993. His column comments on politics, urban affairs and social trends. Prior to joining The Times, Herbert was a national correspondent for NBC from 1991 to 1993, reporting on the "Today Show" and "NBC Nightly News." He worked as a reporter and editor at The Daily News from 1976 until 1985, and then as a columnist and member of its editorial board. He is a founding panelist of "Sunday Edition," a weekly discussion program on WCBS-TV, and the host of "Hotline," a weekly issues program on WNYC-TV. Herbert began his career as a reporter with The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., in 1970, becoming night city editor in 1973. His numerous honors include the Meyer Berger Award for coverage of New York City and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing. He was chairman of the Pulitzer Prize jury for spot news reporting in 1993.
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Adam Hochschild began work as a
newspaper reporter in San Francisco, then was a co-founder of Mother
Jones magazine. Since the mid-1980's he has mainly spent his time
writing books. His five volumes include "Half the Way Home: A Memoir
of Father and Son" and "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits,
Travels," which won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art
of the Essay. He also wrote "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed,
Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," which was a finalist for a
National Book Critics' Circle Award and won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize
among other awards in the United States and abroad. He teaches a
writing class at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University
of California, Berkeley and was a Fulbright lecturer in India.
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Arlie Hochschild coined the term "second shift" to describe the working parent's task of keeping a home a home and wrote a l989 book by that title. She is also the author of "The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work," a l997 cover story in The New York Times Magazine. Her other books include "The Commercialization of Intimate Life" (2003) and "Global Woman," co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich. Hochschild teaches sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Anne Hull is an enterprise reporter on the national staff of
The Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2000, Hull was a
national correspondent for The St. Petersburg Times. Hull is a
three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2003 for
national reporting for "Rim of the New World," her series on
second-generation immigrants in the American South. Hull has twice
won the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award, most recently in 2000 for a
Washington Post Magazine piece about the cultural conflicts ignited
by the opening of an upscale grocery store in a gentrifying
neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Hull was a Nieman
Fellow in 1995.
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Louise Kiernan writes for the Chicago Tribune's projects team. She was the lead writer on "Gateway to Gridlock," an extensive look at the American air-traffic system that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. She was also a finalist for a Pulitzer in the same category for an individual project about a woman killed by a piece of falling glass. Since she joined The Tribune as an intern in 1992, Kiernan has run the paper's urban affairs team; worked on the Sunday magazine staff; reported from abroad and contributed to the newspaper's features, commentary, books and travel sections. |
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Yunghi Kim is the first woman in almost 40 years to be named Magazine Photographer of the Year. She has twice won the World Press Photo Foundation Golden Eye Award, for her documentation of the return of Rwandan refugees from Zaire and student protests in Indonesia. She received the Overseas Press Club Olivier Rebbot Award for her photo essay on the lives of former South Korean comfort women. "Korean Comfort Women" was published in the Asian editions of Time and US News & World Report. Kim was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10. She began her career at The Patriot Ledger before moving to The Boston Globe. Her coverage of the famine in Somalia for The Globe was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. She also won the Overseas Press Club's John Faber Award for her coverage of the Rwandan refugees and the South African elections. Kim now freelances for leading U.S. and international newspapers and magazines.
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Mark Kramer has written
articles for The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, National
Geographic, The Atlantic Monthly, Outside and other publications. His
books include "Three Farms: Making Milk, Meat and Money from the
American Soil," "Invasive Procedures: A Year in the World of Two
Surgeons" and "Travels with a Hungry Bear: A Journey to the Russian
Heartland." He co-edited the anthology "Literary Journalism" and is
writer-in-residence at the Nieman Foundation and director of the
Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism. He was writer-in-residence
and professor of journalism at Boston University from 1991-2001 and
taught at Smith College for a decade before that.
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc wrote the bestselling "Random Family:
Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx," in which she
chronicles two generations of women in the South Bronx. For the last
decade, she has immersed herself in the world of teenagers,
particularly the urban poor. She writes frequently for The New York
Times Magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker,
Esquire, The Village Voice and many other magazines. She has received
fellowships at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute and Yale University Law
School, as well as a Soros Media Fellowship from the Open Society.
She is currently a visiting scholar at the New York University School
of Journalism.
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Charlie LeDuff, a national correspondent for The New York Times, recently covered the American forces in Iraq. Before joining The Times in 1995 as a reporter for the metro desk, he worked as a reporter for the Alaska Fisherman's Journal, taught at a middle school for troubled children and was a gang counselor. He was also a cannery worker, a bartender and a baker. LeDuff received the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Mike Berger Award for profiles of Mike Sheehan (who spent 25 years as a police officer and detective before becoming a TV reporter) and Ruby Jean Johnson (a prominent personality during the Harlem Renaissance who was found strangled in 1998). He was one of several reporters working on The Times series "How Race is Lived in America," which won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001. LeDuff is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe of Michigan. |
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Nicholas Lemann is a veteran journalist who has worked at The
Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic
Monthly and The New Yorker. His books include "The Promised Land" and
"The Big Test." This fall he left his post as Washington
correspondent for The New Yorker to become dean of the Graduate
School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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Victor Merina is a senior
fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Institute
for Justice and Journalism. As a staff writer at the Los Angeles
Times, he shared the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for spot news coverage of
the L.A. riots. As an investigative reporter at the paper, Merina was
a 1997 Pulitzer finalist for "And Justice for Some," his team's
series on homicides. He contributes essays to the Los Angeles Times
Sunday Magazine and Sunday Opinion section. Merina has been a fellow
at the Poynter Institute. He has taught at the Institute for the
Advancement of Journalism in South Africa, the American Indian Journalism
Institute in South Dakota and the University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism. He was a fellow at the Freedom Forum
Media Studies Center in New York. Merina has a B.A. in political
science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.S. in
journalism from Columbia University.
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Rick Meyer worked for The
Associated Press for 15 years as a national
news-features writer and a White House correspondent. Meyer is now at the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked
for 24 years as a metro writer, national correspondent and narrative
editor. Meyer was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing twice: in
2001 for "When the Shooting Stops" and in 1996 for "Buried Alive." He
won a Sigma Delta Chi award for magazine reporting. He shared the
Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Public Service, won
the Merriman Smith Award for deadline writing and the Worth Bingham
Prize for investigative reporting. He is married and has five
children.
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Sonia Nazario, a projects
reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has spent 19 years reporting and
writing about social issues. Her stories have tackled issues such as
hunger, drug addiction and immigration. In 2003 her story "Enrique's
Journey," the tale of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in
the U.S., won ten awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature
writing, the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award Grand Prize. In 1998, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a
series on children of drug-addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a
George Polk award for a series about hunger among school children in
California. Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and Argentina, began her
career at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote from four of its
city bureaus. She has written extensively from Latin America and
about Latinos in the United States. She is a graduate of Williams
College and has a master's degree in Latin American studies from the
University of California, Berkeley.
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Barry Newman began working at The Wall Street Journal in 1970, after apprenticeships at the Albany Times-Union and The New York Times. He moved to Singapore in 1976, covered Southeast Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific, and published a collection of light pieces: "East of the Equator." Beginning in 1981, he spent five years covering Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Britain; and for the next 11 years, he covered Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In 1989 he won the Overseas Press Club's explanatory journalism prize for articles on the collapse of communism. In 1997 he returned to New York where he continues to write offbeat features and serious pieces on immigration. Newman's work has appeared in Washington Monthly and American Scholar. His stories have been collected in "The Literary Journalists" and in several Wall Street Journal books including "Floating off the Page" and "Herd on the Street."
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Susan Orlean writes for The New
Yorker. She has authored more than fifty "Talk of the Town" pieces as
well as profiles and "Reporter at Large" articles. She writes
"Popular Chronicles," a series on American popular culture. Her book
"The Orchid Thief," which chronicles the exploits of orchid poachers
in Florida, was made into the movie "Adaptation." She also wrote "The
Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People";
"Red Sox and Blue Fish," a compilation of columns written for The
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and "Saturday Night," a journal
recounting the Saturday nights she spent in communities around the
country. She has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and
Vogue and has written for Esquire, Outside and The New York Times
Magazine. Orlean is a 2004 Nieman Fellow.
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Samantha Power wrote "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," which examines U.S. responses to genocide. The book won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a 2003 National Book Critics Circle award. Power is lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School for Government a University and the founding executive director of the school's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. From 1993 to 1996 Power covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia for US News and World Report and The Economist. In 1996 she joined the International Crisis Group as a political analyst and helped launch the organization in Bosnia. Her article on Rwandan genocide, "Bystanders to Genocide," appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (September 2001). She is the editor, with Graham Allison, of "Realizing Human Rights."
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Chip Scanlan is a senior faculty member in writing and director of the National Writers Workshops at the Poynter Institute. He has been a reporter for The Providence Journal, feature writer for The St. Petersburg Times and national correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers. His articles, essays and short stories have appeared in The American Scholar, The Washington Post Magazine, Mississippi Review Web, The Boston Globe Magazine and Salon.com. He wrote "Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century," co-edited "America's Best Newspaper Writing" and produces "Chip on Your Shoulder," a twice-weekly writing-advice column, for Poynter Online.
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Barry Siegel directs the literary journalism program at the University of California at Irvine and writes for the Los Angeles Times. He also is the author of five books, including three novels. The narratives he's written for The Times have garnered dozens of honors, among them two PEN Center USA West Literary awards in journalism, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel award. He won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for an article about a Utah man charged with negligence in the death of his son and the judge who heard the case. His books include "A Death in White Bear Lake," "Shades of Gray," "The Perfect Witness," "Actual Innocence" and "Lines of Defense."
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Lawrence H. Summers took office as president of Harvard University on July 1, 2001. An eminent scholar and admired public servant, Summers has taught on the faculty at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served in a series of senior public policy positions, including political economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, chief economist of the World Bank and secretary of the Treasury of the United States. In 1993 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40. Summers received his B.S. from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. |
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Geri Thoma is a partner at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency in New York. She represents many journalists, novelists, historians, economists, sociologists and biographers. Her client list includes a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction writing and winners of the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting, two MacArthur Foundation Awards, the Lannan Literary Award, the Whiting Writers' Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has recently sold books on race and sexuality; work in America; Enron; Goldman Sachs; the culture of fear that drives politics and media astray; Italian Americans and food; the history of civil rights in the northern states; Thomas Jefferson's death; Aaron Burr's misunderstood political career; Lincoln's Cooper Union speech; globalization as a powerful force for good (but one that must be more intelligently managed); and a political analysis of power, terror, peace and war by a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Patricia Williams is the John
Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University. She writes the
bimonthly column "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" for The Nation. A
graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, she was named a
MacArthur Fellow in 2000. Her books include "The Alchemy of Race and
Rights," "The Rooster's Egg" and "Seeing a Color-Blind Future."
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William F. Woo, a reporter and editor for 40 years, teaches journalism at Stanford University, where he has been the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism since 1996. He also is a visiting professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Hong Kong and for six years was a lecturer in ethics at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1986 to 1996 he was editor of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is the author of many articles on the press, one of which, "An Outline of American Journalism," appeared in the fall 2002 issue of the Quarterly Journal of American Studies published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He was born in Shanghai and has lectured extensively in China on journalism. He was a 1967 Nieman Fellow.
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Bob Batz Jr. grew up tagging along with his reporter father and has been writing stories for Pittsburgh dailies for 17 years. After attending the 2000 Conference on Narrative Journalism, he returned to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and started Storytellers, a grassroots collaboration of writers and photographers. Batz has reported on everything from the funeral of Princess Diana to nude volleyball, but his favorite projects are narratives, like the serial on riding in a rented motor home with ironworkers to see the Steelers play in Super Bowl XXX. Last year he was on the Post-Gazette team that quickly produced a 10-page special section (and later book) about the Quecreek coal miners, "All Nine Alive!" The piece won the 2002 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism in the nondeadline reporting category.
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Lynn Kippax moved from newspapers to radio and television, where he's been a reporter, news editor and producer for National Public Radio and many national news organizations and affiliates. This summer and fall, he took a break from journalism to work for HBO on the production of Richard Russo's "Empire Falls." Kippax is president of the Society of Professional Journalists' Maine Pro Chapter and is senior lecturer at the Salt Center for Documentary Studies in Portland, Me. |
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Sara J. Kuhl is Sunday/state editor at The Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wisc. She has worked as a reporter/photographer, copy editor, city editor and top editor of daily newspapers in Wisconsin and Idaho. For 16 months she also served as the editor of an alternative newsweekly in Boise, Idaho. After attending last year's Nieman conference she returned to her own news room and began spreading the gospel of narrative. The Wisconsin State Journal has a small yet thriving narrative group. The newspaper has published a number of narrative pieces including a Sunday package on a 6-year-old boy who was killed by a repeat drunken driver; a story about five alumni of a local high school, class of 1960, all of whom had organ transplants; and a profile on one of Madison's most innovative chefs.
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Nell Lake is the editor of the Nieman Narrative Digest, an online resource for narrative enthusiasts that will be launched later this year. She's written, edited and taught narrative nonfiction for 13 years. She's reported on the environment for National Public Radio affiliates in the Pacific Northwest; lived and written in Hanoi, Vietnam; taught writing at the College of Communication at Boston University and worked as an editor and contributing writer at a national health and fitness magazine. Meanwhile, she has freelanced for numerous publications, including The Boston Globe, Harvard Magazine and Yankee. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and two young sons.
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Cafe Session Speaker Daniel W. Lehman is co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. He also co-edits the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series. He's professor of English at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, and the author of two books of nonfiction theory and criticism: "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution" and "Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge." Lehman covered law and politics for 15 years in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, writing for such magazines and newspapers as The Village Voice, New York Magazine and The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress. The topics of his critical essays and book chapters range from Sigmund Freud to Jon Krakauer, from Tom Wolfe to Raymond Carver, from downtown Manhattan alternative journalism in the 1970's to the representation of trauma in Amish communities during the 1990's. Lehman was a Stanley J. Kahrl Fellow in Literary Manuscripts at Harvard University during the 2000-2001 academic year.
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Cafe Session Speaker Joe Mackall is the co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). His articles have been published in a number of newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post and The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. His essays have appeared in several anthologies, literary journals and recently on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." Mackall is an associate professor of English and journalism at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.
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Sarah Wernick has co-written six books, including the bestselling "Strong Women Stay Young" with Miriam Nelson. She has most recently published "Lung Cancer: Myths, Facts, Choices -- and Hope" with Dr. Claudia Henschke and Peggy McCarthy. The book received the 2003 June Roth Memorial Award for Health and Medical Books from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. "Quick Fit: The Complete 15-Minute No-Sweat Workout," written with fitness trainer Rick Bradley, is coming out in January 2004. Wernick speaks and presents workshops on book proposals and book collaborations. Her Web site features FAQ on book collaboration and "So, You Want to Write a Book!" -- an article about nonfiction publishing with many links and references to resources.
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