2009 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism: Telling True Stories in Turbulent Times

Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton is director of Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab, an effort to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet era. Before spending a year as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he worked for a decade as a newspaper reporter and occasional foreign correspondent, most recently at the Dallas Morning News, where he won a top prize from Investigative Reporters and Editors and five first-place national awards. He began blogging during the Clinton years and coded his first web pages in 1994.