Past Nossiter Lecturers
2023
"How I Became a Journalist and What I Need to Survive"
Fahim Abed
Independent Journalist from Afghanistan, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2022
"Covering American Democracy: It's Not a Game (At Least It Shouldn't Be)"
Bill Barrow
National Politics Reporter, The Associated Press, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2021
"Fact-Based Journalism in an Age of Suspicion"
Alissa Johannsen Rubin
International Correspondent, The New York Times, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2020
"After the Coronavirus: China and the U.S."
Lucy Hornby
Deputy Bureau Chief, Financial Times, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2019
"Truth Is Our Math. How to Rebuild Trust in Media When the Society Is Polarized"
Sevgil Musaieva
Editor-in-Chief, Ukrayinska Pravda, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2018
"A Second Suffrage: How Women Are Remaking American Politics in the Trump Era"
Lisa Lerer
National Political Reporter, The Associated Press, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2017
"Disrupted Discourse: Political Polarization, Propaganda, and the Fragility of Democracy"
Karin Pettersson
Political Editor-in-Chief, Aftonbladet, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2016
"Chemical Nation: How Americans Became Guinea Pigs in a Vast, Haphazard Chemistry Experiment"
Mariah Blake
Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University
2015
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Europe in Crisis"
Henry Chu
London Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2014
"Pop-Up Learning: How Technology is Changing and Challenging College"
Jeffrey R. Young
Editor and Writer on Technology Issues and the Future of Education at The Chronicle of Higher Education; Louis Stark Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
2013
"Observations about the World after the Arab Spring"
Souad Mekhennet
German journalist, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and ZDF (German television); 2013 Barry Bingham Jr. Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2012
"The Fine Line between Science and Politics"
Samiha Shafy
Science Writer for Der Spiegel, International Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2011
"Uprising in Egypt and Iran, Similarities and Differences"
Nazila Fathi
Foreign Correspondent, New York Times; Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2010
"Stuff Them or Shoot Them? - The Future of The Foreign Correspondent"
James Reynolds
BBC Foreign Correspondent, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2009
"What the Middle East Policy under President Obama Should Look Like"
Scheherezade Faramarzi
Middle East Correspondent, The Associated Press, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2008
"Reflections on Reporting the Middle East"
Simon Wilson
Middle East Bureau Chief, BBC News, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2007
Anja Niedringhaus
Photographer, The Associated Press, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2006
Charles Sennott
Former Bureau Chief for Europe and Middle East for The Boston Globe, Neiman Fellow at Harvard University
2005
Richard Chacon
Deputy Foreign Editor, The Boston Globe, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2004
"Repercussions of War Crime Tribunals in Rwanda and Sierra Leone"
Thierry Cruvellier
Co-founder of Diplomatie Judiciare, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2003
"The 2000 Census and Reshaping America"
David Dahl
St. Petersburg (FL) Times, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2002
"Civil Liberties in Developing Countries: The Impact of the War on Terrorism"
Owais Aslam Ali
Secretary General of the Pakistan Press Foundation, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2001
Ken Armstrong
Chicago Tribune Legal Affairs Writer, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
2000
Mary Kay Magistad
National Public Radio's Southeast Asia correspondent, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University