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

Victor Merina

Victor Merina is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism and senior correspondent and special projects editor for Reznet, a Web site focusing on Native American issues and indigenous peoples. A former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, he was part of an investigative team whose series on homicides in L.A. County was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist. He also shared in the paper’s 1993 Pulitzer for spot news coverage of the L.A. riots. He has led writing, reporting, and storytelling seminars from South Dakota to South Africa and was a keynote speaker for the 2008 Global Inter-Media Dialogues in Bali.

Handouts & Resources:

Natives’ Journey to Inauguration Completes a Soldier’s Quest, www.reznetnews.org

Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary (PDF)