Jonathan Seitz is the Researcher/Reporter for Nieman Reports. He also serves as the Nieman Foundation’s in-house photographer, videographer, and audio technician. He lives in Somerville, Mass.
The story of Nathaniel Nakasa has all the makings of a classic tragedy. Nakasa, a talented black journalist from South Africa, was selected to be a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1965. His country’s apartheid government would not issue … Read more
For its first 40 years, the Nieman Foundation was something of a nomad. It had been created in 1938 through money left to Harvard by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Milwaukee Journal editor Lucius Nieman, … Read more
Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the … Read more
Professor Achille Mbembe, left, spoke with Greg Marinovich and other 2014 Nieman Fellows about the new global condition, in which the south and the north are … Read more
During a discussion with 2014 Nieman Fellow Anna Fifield, right, at the Nieman Foundation, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris said that Donald Rumsfeld, the subject of his new film … Read more
Jonathan Seitz, Nieman Reports researcher/reporter, chronicles the fortunes of the “Santa Clara Hawk” To a first-time visitor, the statue of a hawk in front of the Nieman Foundation may seem out of place. It is carved from smooth, gray-black … Read more
From left, David Beard, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Seth Mnookin, speaking at the Nieman Foundation on May 1. Photo by Jonathan Seitz “One of the things that’s happening with Twitter is the whole process … Read more
In April 2011, Chicago Tribune reporter Patricia Callahan sat in a California Senate hearing, listening in rapt attention as burn surgeon David Heimbach described in excruciating detail how a seven-week-old baby girl had died after being burned by a pillow … Read more
