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Rosental Calmon Alves is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, which reaches thousands of journalists with training and organization-building programs. In 1996, he became the first journalist selected to hold the Knight Chair in International Journalism at UT Austin. Previously, he was managing editor of Jornal do Brasil, where in 1995 he oversaw the launch of the newspaper’s online edition, the first in Brazil. In 1991, he created the first Brazilian online news service. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow.
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Deborah Amos covers Iraq for National Public Radio, which she rejoined after a decade in television news, including ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. Previously, she spent 16 years with NPR in posts including London and Amman, Jordan. She has won recognition for her coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and is the author of Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a 1992 Nieman Fellow.
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Tom Ashbrook is host of National Public Radio’s daily interview and call-in show On Point. He was raised on an Illinois farm, studied history in India and at Yale, and was a surveyor and dynamiter in the Alaskan oilfields before taking his first news job at the South China Morning Post. He spent 10 years in Asia, and served as Tokyo bureau chief, foreign editor, and deputy managing editor of The Boston Globe. In 2001, he was asked to host emergency coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks for NPR, which grew into On Point. He was a 1997 Nieman Fellow.
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Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab, which helps journalists adapt to the changing environment online. Previously, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, where his reports on cheating in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and earned him an award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has also won five first-place national awards for education coverage in investigative reporting, commentary, and beat reporting. He was a 2008 Nieman Fellow.
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Hodding Carter III is a professor of leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he was president and chief executive of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He began his career as a reporter and editor in Mississippi before serving as State Department spokesman under President Carter. He later wrote op-ed columns for The Wall Street Journal and worked in public and network television, winning four Emmys, then joined the University of Maryland journalism faculty in the mid-1990s. The author of two books, he was a 1966 Nieman Fellow.
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Lorie Conway is an independent producer and filmmaker whose work has been honored with the Peabody, DuPont, and Cable Ace awards. Her latest project is the documentary film Forgotten Ellis Island, which will air on PBS in 2009 and is shown daily at the national park. She also wrote a book of the same title. Her other public television documentaries include: The Life and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith; Boston: The Way it Was; The Jews of Boston; and Fabulous Fenway. Conway was a 1994 Nieman Fellow and is vice president of the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board.
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Jeanne Cummings is chief lobbying and money correspondent at Politico.com. Previously, she was a political reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, which she joined in 1997. She took over the White House beat a year later and won the 2000 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for her coverage of the Clinton administration. She has also won top awards for her coverage of the Enron scandal and its connections to the Bush administration, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s complex financial and political support network and the subsequent House ethics investigation.
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George de Lama recently left the Chicago Tribune after a distinguished 30-year career that saw him rise through the ranks from summer intern to managing editor for news, where he helped guide the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. During his tenure overseeing foreign coverage, the Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, six Overseas Press Club awards, and the George Polk Award. The son of Cuban immigrants, he helped the newspaper open a bureau in Havana in 2001, the first American newspaper office in Cuba in 35 years. He was a 1992 Nieman Fellow.
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Melissa Ludtke began her journalism career at Sports Illustrated in the early 1970s, reporting on major league baseball, professional basketball and working on a column about TV and radio coverage. In 1977, she became the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit seeking equal access for women reporters to interview major league players. In the 1980s, she worked for Time magazine covering politics and social policy issues with a focus on children and family issues. Following her Nieman year in 1992, she wrote a book, “On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America.” In the year it was published – in 1997, she became a mother when she adopted her daughter from China. Since 1998, she has been the editor of Nieman Reports.
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Leonard Downie Jr. is vice president at large of The Washington Post. During his 17-year tenure as executive editor, which ended two months ago, the newspaper’s staff won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. In 44 years at the Post, he was also an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and, from 1984 until 1991, managing editor under Ben Bradlee. Downie is the author of five books, including The News About the News (with Robert G. Kaiser), which won the Goldsmith Award from the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard. His first novel, The Rules of the Game, will be published by Knopf in January 2009.
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Ellen Fitzpatrick is a professor of American intellectual and political history at the University of New Hampshire and is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of several books, including History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880–1980; America in Modern Times, since 1890 (with Alan Brinkley); Muckraking: Three Landmark Articles; and Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform. She is working on a book on the 1968 presidential election, and appears regularly on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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Bob Giles became curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism in 2000. Previously, he had been publisher and editor of The Detroit News, which won a Pulitzer Prize under hisleadership in 1994 for its exposure of a scandal in the Michigan House Fiscal Agency. From 1977 to 1986, Giles was executive editor and editor of the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle and the Rochester Times-Union. His career began in 1958 at the Akron Beacon Journal, where he directed the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1970 shootings at Kent State. He was a 1966 Nieman Fellow.
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Amy Goldstein is the national social policy reporter for The Washington Post. She joined the Post in 1987 and covered education and health care locally for the next decade, before becoming the newspaper's national health care reporter. In 2001, she began to cover the White House with an emphasis on domestic issues such as Medicare, Social Security, welfare, housing, and the federal judiciary. She was part of a team of Post reporters that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the government's response. She was a 2005 Nieman Fellow.
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Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnist for The Boston Globe and The Washington Post Writers Group whose weekly column runs in more than 350 newspapers. She has won many awards for her work, including the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. She is the author of nine books, including one with her Nieman classmate Patricia O'Brien: I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives. She began her career as a researcher at Newsweek (when only men were writers) and as a reporter at the Globe, which she joined in 1967. She was a 1974 Nieman Fellow.
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John Harwood is chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times. Previously, he was political editor and chief political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, where he also reported on Congress and served as White House correspondent during the first Bush administration. He began his news career at the St. Petersburg Times, where he served as state capital correspondent, Washington correspondent, and political editor, and covered the deepening unrest against apartheid in South Africa. He was a 1990 Nieman Fellow.
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Anne Hull is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, where she has written about immigration, class, race, the war in Iraq, the Sept. 11 attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. Hull spent 2007 reporting on the military’s care for wounded soldiers, including harsh living conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, for which she and colleague Dana Priest won numerous awards, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Hull is also a repeat winner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Distinguished Writing Award. Previously, she spent 15 years at the St. Petersburg Times. She was a 1995 Nieman Fellow.
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Louise Kiernan is a senior editor for staff writing development at the Chicago Tribune. Previously, she served as a reporter and editor for the paper’s projects team, ran the urban affairs team, worked on the Sunday magazine staff, reported from abroad, and wrote a features column. She wrote the lead article in a series that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and was also a Pulitzer finalist that year for an individual project. In 2006, she led the effort to reinvent the paper's weekly “Perspective” section. She was a 2005 Nieman Fellow.
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Ju-Don Marshall Roberts is the managing editor of WashingtonPost.com, where she oversees the 24/7 news desk, live discussion programming, news video, interactivity, business and technology, and regional and hyper-local coverage. Previously, she was a copy editor and freelance writer for the Post. She has also worked as a copy editor at The Washington Times, and a book reviewer and copy editor at The Charlotte Observer. She is on the board of the Online News Association and the advisory committee of the American Press Institute. She was a 2004 Nieman Fellow.
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Bill Kovach is a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri and founding director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. A journalist and writer for 50 years, he covered the civil rights movement for The Tennessean, headed the Washington bureau of The New York Times, and served as editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which won two Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. A 1989 Nieman Fellow, he stayed on as curator, retiring from Harvard in 2001. He is co-author with Tom Rosenstiel of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect.
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Pekka Mykkänen is the Washington correspondent for Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily in Finland. He has been covering the United States since 2006. From 1998 to 2003, he was the newspaper’s Asia correspondent, based in Shanghai and Beijing. He has reported from many war zones, from Afghanistan to Somalia, and is the author of two books on China’s rise and its impact on the world. He was a 2004 Nieman Fellow.
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Jack Nelson is a retired Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. He began his reporting career at the Biloxi Daily Herald, then worked at The Atlanta Constitution, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for exposing conditions at Millegeville State Hospital, the world's largest mental institution. He has written three books with other Nieman fellows: The Censors and the Schools (with Gene Roberts); The FBI and the Berrigans (with Ron Ostrow); and The Orangeburg Massacre (with Jack Bass). He also wrote Captive Voices and Terror in the Night. He was a 1962 Nieman Fellow.
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Geneva Overholser is director of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. Previously, she was a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism’s Washington bureau. Under her leadership as editor, The Des Moines Register won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for its reporting on a rape victim. She has also been ombudsman of The Washington Post, a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, and a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writers Group. She is the author of On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change. She was a 1986 Nieman Fellow.
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Eugene Robinson is an associate editor and twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post. In his 25 years at the paper, he has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the award-winning “Style” section. He is the author of Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race, and Last Dance in Havana. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has received numerous journalism awards.
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Mara Schiavocampo is the digital correspondent for NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams. A pioneer of new media journalism, she travels the world producing, shooting, reporting, and editing video pieces; blogging; and shooting still photos. She also files reports for Nightly News online, The Today Show, and MSNBC. Previously, she worked as an international contributor, producer, anchor, and commentator for numerous news outlets and Web sites, including ABC, CBS, Current TV, BET, Yahoo!, NPR, Ebony, and UPTOWN Magazine. She won the National Association of Black Journalists’ award for Emerging Journalist of the Year in 2007.
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Charles Sennott is co-founder and executive editor of Global News Enterprises, a U.S.-based Web site devoted to international news. Previously, he led a multimedia team at The Boston Globe that combined writing, video, audio, and photography for print and online. During nearly 25 years as a foreign correspondent and on-air analyst, he reported on wars and insurgencies in 15 countries, and covered everything from the papal transition in Rome to the oil industry in Saudi Arabia. He also served as chief of the Globe’s bureaus in Europe and the Middle East. He was a 2006 Nieman Fellow.
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Michael Skoler is executive director of the Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media — the second largest public radio producer in the U.S. He founded a model for Web 2.0 journalism, called Public Insight Journalism, and created an international network of more than 65,000 citizen sources. He has pioneered online news games (most recently, BudgetHero.org) and organized collaborative coverage involving hundreds of public radio stations. He spent a decade as science and foreign correspondent at NPR and is an award-winning reporter, producer, and manager in radio, television, print, and the Web. He was a 1993 Nieman Fellow.
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John Walcott is Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Co. and former Washington bureau chief for Knight Ridder. He won the 2008 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, awarded by the Nieman Foundation, for directing pre-invasion news coverage refuting the Bush administration’s claims about the need for military action in Iraq. Previously, he covered international diplomacy for Newsweek and national security for The Wall Street Journal, and served as foreign and national editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is the co-author of Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
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Jack E. White is an independent journalist based in Richmond, Va., who writes about politics, race, and social issues. He is a former columnist for TIME magazine and a frequent contributor to TheRoot.com. During his 29-year career at TIME, he also served as a correspondent or bureau chief in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Nairobi, and Washington, and as editor of the “Nation” section. He also worked briefly as senior producer for domestic news at ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. He is the co-author of Roberts vs. Texaco. He was a 1977 Nieman Fellow.
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