Alicia Anstead: Reports on the arts for the Bangor (Maine) Daily News and edits Inside Arts for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in Washington, D.C. She is the 2008 Arts and Culture Nieman Fellow. Full bio>>

Marie Arana: Books editor for The Washington Post and author of the memoir American Chica, the novel Cellophane, and a nonfiction book titled The Writing Life. Full bio>>

Jacqui Banaszynski: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who holds the Knight Chair at the Missouri School of Journalism, is an editing fellow at the Poynter Institute, and coaches newsroom reporters and editors around the world. Full bio>>

Frank Barrows: The former managing editor of The Charlotte Observer, he has written for publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Golf Magazine. Full bio>>

Dan Baum covered the military, the Asian tsunami, and the Hurricane Katrina crisis as a staff writer for The New Yorker. He's now writing a book about New Orleans. Full bio>>

Josh Benton: Staff writer and columnist at The Dallas Morning News, relentless blogger, and 2008 Nieman Fellow. Full bio>>

Paul Bresnick: Literary agent; former publisher at LiveREADS, and former editor at Penthouse, Simon & Schuster, Henry Holt, Doubleday, and William Morrow. Full bio>>

Katy Butler: Journalist, memoirist, and National Magazine Award nominee whose articles on psychology, religion, and addiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Best Buddhist Writing 2006, More, and Vogue. Full bio>>

Roy Peter Clark: Writing instructor at the Poynter Institute, he is the author or editor of 15 books on the craft and values of journalism, including Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. Full bio>>

Sean Connelley: Graphics producer for LATimes.com, and formerly senior multimedia producer for The Oakland Tribune. He is also a cofounder of 49th Parallel Productions. Full bio>>

Russell Contreras: Boston Globe reporter on minority issues, Web editor for regional multimedia projects, and host of the Globe podcast Across the Divide. Full bio>>

Patrick Cox: Reporter and editor with the public radio program The World. Full bio>>

Lane DeGregory: Award-winning features writer at the St. Petersburg Times whose stories take readers inside foster homes, onto carnival midways, and out shopping with a city manager changing from man to woman. Full bio>>

Matt Dellinger: Multimedia editor of The New Yorker, he has also overseen editorial projects such as The Complete New Yorker digital archive and the launch (and relaunch) of NewYorker.com. Full bio>>

Andrew DeVigal: Multimedia editor at The New York Times, where he guides the presentation of audio, graphics, and photo slide shows at NYTimes.com. Full bio>>

Elizabeth Farnsworth: Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; her independent documentary The Judge and the General will air on PBS in 2008. Full bio>>

Travis Fox: An Emmy Award-winning video producer for WashingtonPost.com. His distinctive Web video and panoramic photos are considered innovative in the field of Internet journalism. Full bio>>

Laura Fraser: Contributing editor to More magazine and author of the books An Italian Affair and Losing It: America's Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on It. Full bio>>

Tom French: Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative reporter for the St. Petersburg Times who teaches at the Poynter Institute and Goucher College. Full bio>>

Larry Habegger: Cofounder and executive editor of Travelers' Tales Books, he has been writing about the world since the late 1970s for books, magazines, and newspapers. Full bio>>

Constance Hale: Magazine writer, author of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, and director of the Narrative Program at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Full bio>>

Jack Hart: Writing coach and former managing editor at The Oregonian; he has edited two Pulitzer Prize winners and contributed editing to two others. He is the author of A Writer’s Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work. Full bio>>

Derrick Henry: Senior producer at NYTimes.com; formerly Internet news manager for Newsday.com and online editor at The Associated Press. Full bio>>

Angelia Herrin: Executive director of business development at Harvard Business School Publishing, Herrin teaches news and profile writing in the Master’s in Journalism program at Harvard University Extension. She was journalist at Knight-Ridder newspapers and USA Today for more than 20 years. Full bio>>

Adam Hochschild: Author of six nonfiction books including King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. Full bio>>

John Hockenberry: Three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy award winner, contributing editor to Conde Nast Portfolio and Metropolis magazines, and host of a new morning talk show on Public Radio International. Full bio>>

Anne Hull: Enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, where she writes about immigration, class, race, and the war in Iraq. She spent 2007 reporting on the military's care of wounded soldiers, including the investigation that exposed harsh living conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Full bio>>

Alex Kotlowitz: Author of three books, including There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River, and regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and NPR’s This American Life. Full bio>>

Indira Lakshmanan: Senior campaign reporter for Bloomberg News, writing enterprise news and features on the presidential race. She was a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe for more than a decade, writing from Latin America, Asia, and Bosnia. Full bio>>

Mark Leibovich: D.C.-based national political reporter for The New York Times, who writes mainly political features and profiles. Full bio>>

Marcus Mabry: International business editor of The New York Times and author of the biography Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. Full bio>>

Jon Marcus: Former editor of Boston magazine and an author and freelance writer who teaches feature writing at Boston University and Boston College. Full bio>>

Vanessa Mobley: Senior editor, The Penguin Press, she edited Matt Bai's The Argument, Caroline Elkins' Imperial Reckoning, and Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell. Full bio>>

Wesley Morris: A film critic at The Boston Globe who has written for Film Comment and Slate.com, he has also served as a film awards juror and as a guest critic on television. Full bio>>

Amy O'Leary: Multimedia producer for The New York Times, and formerly a producer at Public Radio International’s This American Life. Full bio>>

John Plunkett: Design consultant who, with partner Barbara Kuhr, created the look and feel of Wired magazine and HotWired, the first Web site with original content and advertising. Wired won three National Magazine Awards in five years, while HotWired launched the Web boom. Full bio>>

Sam Pollard: Editor, director, and producer of feature films and documentaries for more than 30 years; his four-part series on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, co-produced with Spike Lee, won three Emmys, a Peabody, the George Polk Award, the NAACP Image Award, and two awards from the 2006 Venice Film Festival. Full bio>>

Dana Priest: A Pultizer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post, she has chronicled the expanding role of the military around the world, the CIA's counterterrorism campaign — including its secret prisons overseas — and the poor outpatient care for Iraq War veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Full bio>>

Laura Ruel: Career journalist, assistant professor of multimedia journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, and award-winning designer. Full bio>>

Jessie Scanlon: Senior writer at BusinessWeek.com, covering innovation and design; she has written for Wired, Slate, Popular Science, and The New York Times. Full bio>>

Alessandra Stanley: Chief television critic for The New York Times. Full bio>>

Jane Ellen Stevens: Multimedia journalist and news organization consultant. Full bio>>

Brian Storm: President of MediaStorm, a production studio whose principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism and audio reporting across multiple media. Full bio>>

Wendy Strothman: Owner of The Strothman Agency, a Boston literary agency, former publisher at Houghton Mifflin's Trade Division, and former editor at Beacon Press. Full bio>>

Neil Swidey: Staff writer for The Boston Globe Magazine and author of The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives. Full bio>>

Tommy Tomlinson: Local columnist at The Charlotte Observer and finalist for the Pulitzer in commentary in 2005. Full bio>>

Sherry Turkle: Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and the forthcoming Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. Full bio>>

Lou Ureneck: Author of Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska, and chair of the Journalism Department at Boston University. Full bio>>

Khoi Vinh: Design director for NYTimes.com, and author of the blog Subtraction.com. Full bio>>

Ayelet Waldman: Novelist and essayist for The New York Times, the Guardian, Vogue, Elle, and others. Full bio>>

Lissa Warren: VP, senior director of publicity and acquiring editor at Da Capo Press (a member of the Perseus Books Group, Publishers Weekly’s 2007 Publisher of the Year), adjunct professor at Boston University and Emerson College, and author of The Savvy Author’s Guide to Book Publicity. Full bio>>

Walter Ray Watson: A senior producer for National Public Radio, he has produced stories from South Africa; Topeka, Kan.; and New Orleans. He began his career writing for the New Pittsburgh Courier. Full bio>>

Marco Werman: Senior producer for the public radio program The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH Boston. Full bio>>

Mike Wilson: Assistant managing editor of news features at The St. Petersburg Times, who works with a host of prize-winning writers and editors. Full bio>>

James Wood is a staff writer for The New Yorker, with responsibility for book reviews, and a professor of literary criticism in the English and American Literature Department at Harvard. He is also the author of a novel and three books of literary essays and criticism. Full bio>>

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Anne Bernays: A writing instructor at the Nieman Foundation since 1993. Her latest novel is Trophy House, and she is co-author with Pamela Painter of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers.

Andres Cavelier: A 2008 international Nieman Fellow who came to Harvard from the multimedia department at El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister paper of The Miami Herald. Previously, he worked as New York and Washington, D.C., correspondent for El Tiempo newspaper and RCN Televisión, two of Colombia’s largest media outlets.

Peter Davis: A documentary filmmaker and author of three books. He has also written for The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire. His film about the Vietnam War, Hearts and Minds, received an Academy Award in 1975.

Christine Gorman: An inveterate technophile who has covered health and medical topics for 20 years, primarily for Time magazine. She is the 2008 Nieman Fellow for Global Health Reporting.

Nell Lake: A magazine writer and founding editor of the Nieman Narrative Digest. She has written for Harvard Magazine, Wondertime, Yankee, and many other publications; reported for NPR affiliates; worked as an editor at Walking  magazine; and taught writing at Boston University.

Jenifer McKim: An investigative reporter at The Orange County Register, where she led a team that exposed the dangers of lead in Mexican candy. She has also worked at The San Juan Star in Puerto Rico and The Boston Globe. She is a 2008 Nieman Fellow.

Andrew Meldrum: An American journalist who worked in southern Africa for 27 years, writing primarily for The Guardian, The Observer, and The Economist, all London-based publications. Meldrum's work exposing state torture in Zimbabwe caused him to be jailed briefly and expelled from the country. He is a 2008 Nieman Fellow.

Olivera Perkins: A reporter at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer who has covered City Hall, real-estate development, and politics. She is a 2008 Nieman Fellow.

Jeb Sharp: A reporter for the public radio program The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH Boston. She covers foreign policy and human rights, and has reported in the last year from Chad, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was a 2006 Nieman Fellow.

Stuart Watson: An investigative reporter at WCNC-TV in Charlotte, N.C. He has been a television reporter for 25 years, winning the George Foster Peabody Award three times and the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton twice. He is a former board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a 2008 Nieman Fellow.

Dick Weiss: Former editor, reporter, and writing coach for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He now runs his own writing and editing business, WeissWrite LLC.

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