Nieman Notes

Dimitri Mitropoulos, NF ’99, Assumes Top Job at Ta Nea

Dimitri Mitropoulos took over the helm of the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in May 2014. As executive editor, Mitropoulos manages 120 journalists. He was previously a political commentator with…
March 30, 2015

Joe O’Connor, NF ’05, Takes President Job at WFAE

Joe O’Connor is the new president and general manager of WFAE, a Charlotte, North Carolina NPR news station. O’Connor previously spent eight years as general manager at Rhode Island Public…
March 30, 2015

Susie Banikarim, NF ’14, Named VP at Vocativ

Susie Banikarim has been named vice president of content strategy and audience engagement at Vocativ, a media start-up that seeks to tell original stories using the untapped troves of the…
March 30, 2015

Laura Wides-Muñoz, NF ’13, Joins Fusion

Laura Wides-Muñoz joined Fusion in January as director of news practices. She had spent the previous eight years working as a reporter in the Miami bureau of the Associated Press. She is…
March 30, 2015

Dan Vergano, NF ’08, Joins BuzzFeed News

Dan Vergano has moved to BuzzFeed News, where he is a science reporter based in the media company’s Washington, D.C. bureau. He is covering science politics and policy. Vergano previously…
March 30, 2015

Craig Welch, NF ’07, Joins National Geographic

Craig Welch has left The Seattle Times for National Geographic, where he is continuing to report on the environment.
March 30, 2015

Kalpana Jain, NF ’09, Joins The Conversation US

Kalpana Jain is senior education editor at The Conversation US, a nonprofit website that launched last fall to offer news and views from the academic and research community. She works…
March 30, 2015

Holly Williams, NF ’08, and CBS Staff Wins Jack R. Howard Award

Holly Williams, along with the CBS Evening News team, received the Jack R. Howard Award and $10,000 from the Scripps Howard Foundation for “Holy War,” early coverage of the emergence…
March 30, 2015

Alissa Quart, NF ’10, Authors Book of Poetry

Alissa Quart’s book of poetry, “Monetized,” was published in March by Miami University Press. Quart’s poetry takes a hard look at the commercialization of American culture.
March 30, 2015

David Abel, NF ’13, Wins Ernie Pyle Award

David Abel of The Boston Globe received the Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling and $10,000 from the Scripps HowardFoundation for “The Richard Family,” a two-part narrative about overcoming…
March 30, 2015