Sangar Rahimi, a current Nieman Fellow and reporter for The New York Times in Afghanistan, addressed the US delegation to the United Nations in New York on April 25. Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, introduced him, during … Read more
Our Nieman class, arriving in the fall of 2006, had a contingent of journalists who came to leafy, placid Cambridge from covering Iraq and Afghanistan. For them, the year was in large part about getting distance from war. Not having … Read more
Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed April 4 while covering election preparations in Afghanistan, had photographed wars and conflicts for two decades. In 2005, the Associated Press photographer shared a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the … Read more
