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Journalism Fellows at The Nation InstituteThe Journalism Fellowship Program was established in 1995 to enable prominent journalists to write on pressing and complex social issues free of the constraints of the mainstream media. We invite our fellows to contribute wherever possible to the independent media, thereby adding to the vitality and breadth of the alternative press. We also encourage our fellows to publish their work in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers and web-based resources, to pursue book projects and to appear in person as commentators, critics or analysts on radio and television formats. The current roster of Institute fellows includes Amy Alexander, Jonathan Schell, Gary Younge, Katha Pollitt, Jeremy Scahill, Pamela Newkirk and Chris Hedges, writing on fields ranging from labor to social justice to international affairs.
Jeremy ScahillPuffin Foundation Writing FellowJeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine, where he reports on Iraq war contractors. His New York Times best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army was published in 2007 by Nation Books. Alternet named it best progressive book of the year. 
Eric AltermanFellowEric Alterman is a Nation Institute Fellow, a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Alterman is the author of seven books, including the national bestsellers What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark Green, Viking, 2004). His most recent book is Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America (Viking, 2008). 
Chris HedgesSenior FellowChris Hedges, a Nation Institute Senior Fellow, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism and received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. His next book, Collateral Damage, co-authored with Laila Al-Arian and published by Nation Books, will be out this June. 
Naomi KleinFellowNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 20 languages to date. Klein is also the author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Picador, 2000). The book has been translated into 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. The New York Times called No Logo "a movement bible." In 2000, The Guardian newspaper short-listed it for its First Book Award, and in 2001, No Logo won the Canadian National Business Book Award and the French Prix Mediations. 
Pamela NewkirkFellowPamela Newkirk, a former daily journalist, is an associate professor of journalism at New York University where she is director of the Urban Journalism Workshop. She is the author of Within the Veil Black Journalists, White Media (New York University, 2000), which won the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. She more recently edited A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African-American Letters, (Doubleday, 2003) and is in the process of completing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. 
Gary YoungeAlfred Knobler FellowGary Younge is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a New York correspondent for The Guardian. He has written extensively from Southern Africa and throughout Europe as well as the United Kingdom since he joined the paper in 1994. Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and raised in Stevenage near London, he graduated at 17 and went to teach English to refugees in Sudan before going on to study French and Russian at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. Upon graduation he was awarded a scholarship from The Guardian to study newspaper journalism at City University in London in 1992. After a brief stint as a researcher on a televised international affairs magazine program World This Week, he joined The Guardian in 1994. 
Tom EngelhardtFellowTom Engelhardt created and runs TomDispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture (University of Massachusetts, 1998), which has just been updated, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his TomDispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. He is also Consulting Editor at Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt, and the co-creator and co-editor of its American Empire Project series. His newest book project is The World According to Tomdispatch (Verso, May 2008). 
Jonathan SchellSenior FellowJonathan Schell is the author of 13 books. The most recent is The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of the Nuclear Danger. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1967 to 1987. He is now a visiting lecturer at Yale University. Schell's other books include The Fate of the Earth (Knopf, 1982), which first appeared in three parts in The New Yorker, became a best-seller and was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment"; and The Unconquerable World (Metropolitan, 2003), which the Times called "the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to a continued reliance on war." 
Deepa FernandesPuffin Foundation Writing FellowDeepa Fernandes is a journalist and educator. She has produced award-winning radio features around the world for the BBC World Service and Pacifica Radio. Her features have ranged from the life of women in slums in her native India, to Zapatista refugees in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, and the veggie revolution in Cuba. Her first book, Targeted; National Security and the Big Business of Immigration, was published in 2007. Fernandes hosts a three-hour morning radio show, Wakeup Call, on the Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York and is the founder and co-director of People's Production House, a national media justice training center headquartered in New York City. 
Amy AlexanderAlfred Knobler FellowAmy Alexander is a journalist, author and editor, and the new Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute. She edited a book on the controversial Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan called The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan (Grove, 1998). She is also the author of Fifty Black Women Who Changed America (Kensington, 1999), and more recently, of Lay My Burden Down (Beacon, 2000) with Alvin F. Poussaint, MD. Alexander is currently writing a book on race and the American press. 
Joe ConasonFellowA highly experienced journalist, author and editor, Joe Conason has served as Director of the Nation Institute Investigative Fund since November 2006. The late Molly Ivins once described him as "one of the best investigative reporters in the country." Conason's most recent book is It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush (St. Martins, 2007), which The New York Review of Books called a "pithy…well-written account of an administration bent on establishing authoritarian executive power." A winner of the New York Press Club's Byline Award, he has covered every American presidential election since 1980. He appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio. 
Bill BoyarskyFellowBill Boyarsky is the national political correspondent for Truthdig and author of the recently published Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and The Art of Power Politics, (University of California, 2007) named as one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. In his 31 years with the Los Angeles Times, he was a national political correspondent, a columnist and city editor. He also reported on state and local politics. He was a member of the Times teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes. 
Paolo PellegrinFellowPaolo Pellegrin became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. Pellegrin has won many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous POY Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis and in 2007, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006 he was the recipient of the W. E. Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He has published six books. Pellegrin was born in Rome in 1964 and now lives in New York and Rome. 
Greg PalastPuffin Foundation Writing FellowThe author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast has broken several major stories for BBC, Harper's, The Nation and The Guardian regarding U.S. involvement in the coup d'état against Hugo Chavez and the secret U.S. State Department plans for the oil fields of Iraq and other stories. The Palast Report can be heard weekly on the Air America Radio network. 
Lewis H. LaphamFellowLewis Lapham is the editor of a new quarterly publication on history and literature, Lapham's Quarterly, the National Correspondent for Harper's Magazine and the author of 13 books, among them Money and Class in America, The Wish for Kings, Theater of War and, most recently, Pretensions to Empire. For Bloomberg Radio he hosts a weekly program, The World in Time. His writing has appeared in Life, Commentary, Vanity Fair, National Review, Yale Literary Magazine, ELLE, Fortune, Forbes, American Spectator, The New York Times, The Observer (London), and The Wall Street Journal. 
Eugene RichardsFellowEugene Richards is an award-winning photographer, writer and documentary filmmaker best known for his books and photo essays on topics from breast cancer and poverty to AIDS. He is the author of 13 books, most recently, The Fat Baby (Phaidon, 2004). The Blue Room, a collection of his photographs on abandoned houses and A Procession of Them, which confronts the plight of the institutionalized mentally disabled, will be published this fall. His current book project, War Is Personal, is a documentation in words and pictures of the effects of the Iraq War on the lives of a dozen individuals. 
Lou DuboseFellowLou Dubose is the co-author, with the late Molly Ivins, of two New York Times bestselling Random House books about George W. Bush: Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America. He also wrote, with Texas Monthly senior writer Jan Reid, a political biography of Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay: The Hammer (Public Affairs, 2004). His final collaboration with Ms. Ivins was Bill of Wrongs (Random House, 2007). He currently edits the semi-monthly Washington Spectator and divides his time between Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. 
Bruce MauFellowBruce Mau is the Chairman and CEO of Bruce Mau Design Inc. He founded his studio in 1985, concentrating at first on a single client. In 1995, Bruce Mau received considerable attention for the award-winning and critically acclaimed S,M,L,XL. This was followed in 2000 with Life Style, a book by Mau about his studio's practice. In 2004, Mau launched Massive Change, an ambitious, multi-venue exhibition on the possibilities of design culture. In 2007, Bruce was presented the AIGA Gold Medal in the field of communication design. |
 
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