Niemans in the News

  1. Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    Journalist's Murder Echoes Reality of Deadly War

    Washington Post reporter Salih Saif Aldin was recently killed in Iraq while covering a story for his newspaper. More than 100 Iraqi journalists have died since the start of the Iraq war. New York Times reporter Abdul Razzaq al-Saiedi, Class of 2008, talks about the danger of covering a nation in battle, especially for Iraqis who work for the international media.

    Listen to the full story on NPR.org (5:00).

  2. Tuesday, October 09, 2007
    Meldrum Speaks on Zimbabwe's food crisis

    National Public Radio anchor Marco Werman speaks with Andrew Meldrum, Class of 2008, about Zimbabwe's worsening food crisis. Zimbabwe was once the bread basket of southern Africa. But the country's wheat market has collapsed...and now there is no bread. Meldrum covered Zimbabwe for the British newspaper The Guardian.

    Listen to the full story on NPR.org. (8:00)

  3. Wednesday, October 03, 2007
    Talley Offers Advice to SMU Class

    "The best way to prepare for a newsroom is to be in one," was the message Olive Talley — Class of 1993 — brought to a class of aspiring journalists at Southern Methodist University recently. Being competitive isn't enough, Talley said. Students moving into the workforce should "have developed hands-on, practical experience and use that to emphasize their strengths."

  4. Sunday, September 30, 2007
    Opening the Locker Room Door for Women

    Thirty years ago, the commissioner for Major League Baseball barred Melissa Ludtke — then Sports Illustrated reporter and 1992 Nieman Fellow — from the locker room during Game 1 of the 1977 World Series.

  5. Sunday, September 30, 2007
    "Just Married" to be featured in Boston festival

    Ayelet Bechar’s award-winning documentary will be screened on Sunday, Sept. 30, at the Boston Palestine Film Festival. The film follows the plight of two married Palestinian couples who are not allowed to live together legally in Israel because of its new Law of Citizenship.

    Bechar was a member of the Class of 2008.

  6. Wednesday, September 26, 2007
    PBS features Miller, Idaho Falls Post Register on "Exposé: America's Investigative Reports"

    EXPOSÉ goes inside an extraordinary investigation that unearthed hidden court records to reveal evidence of multiple victims of child sexual abuse, raising questions about some of the most cherished institutions in Idaho Falls.

    Dean Miller, Class of 2008, is the managing editor of the Idaho Post Register, the paper that ran an investigative series revealing years of alleged pedophile abuse by local Boy Scout leaders.

    Watch the series online.

  7. Saturday, September 22, 2007
    The Story We Needed Ken Burns to Tell

    Cecilia Alvear, Class of 1989, recently attended a screening of highlights of Ken Burns "The War," and I found it "stunning, moving and sadly incomplete. Alvear notes that Burns managed to leave the half million Latinos that fought in World War II out of the PBS documentary.

  8. Friday, September 21, 2007
    Jamai addresses the need for change in Morocco’s press

    Aboubakr Jamai, the former publisher of the independent weekly Le Journal Hebdomadaire and member of the Class of 2007, spoke passionately about the need for change in Morocco’s press at an event co-hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Congressional Caucus for Freedom of the Press. A frequent palace critic, Jamai was sued for defamation at home.

    Learn more about the event.

    To learn more about Aboubakr Jamai and the situation in Morocco.

  9. Tuesday, September 18, 2007
    The Power of Strong Opinions: Jim Boyd Joins Minnesota Monitor

    After 25 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jim Boyd — Class of 1980 — has begun a new venture where hard news and opinion meet: he's Minnesota Monitor's new editorial mentor. Charged with helping shape the vision and scope of the site's coverage, he'll be working to improve the writing and news sense of its journalistic fellows.

  10. Saturday, September 15, 2007
    'Jack' Kole, Class of 1963, dies at 73

    John William "Jack" Kole died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County after an apparent heart attack. He was Washington bureau chief for the Milwaukee Journal from1970 to 1989, and press secretary for Rep. David R. Obey (D-Wis.) until retiring in 1997.

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