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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.
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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). 
Ari BermanInvestigative Journalism FellowAri Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine, covering national politics, and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about the White House, Congress, political parties, foreign affairs and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have appeared in The New York Times, Editor & Publisher and The Guardian and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. He's working on his first book, Herding Donkeys, about Howard Dean and the 50-state strategy. 
Max BlumenthalMax Blumenthal is a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow and a Research Fellow for Media Matters for America. He is a regular contributor to The Nation whose work has appeared in publications including the American Prospect, Salon.com, the Washington Monthly, Alternet and on the Huffington Post. He was awarded Best Independent Feature in 2003 by the USC Annenberg/Online Journalism Association for his reporting on the serial killings of female sweatshop workers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He received a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. His muckraking debut, Republican Gomorrah, was a national bestseller that Ambassador Joe Wilson called "a powerful study of right-wing extremism." 
Ta-Nehisi CoatesAlfred Knobler FellowTa-Nehisi Coates is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where he writes a popular blog. He is a former staff writer at The Village Voice and Time and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Nation and numerous other publications. He is also the author of a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, originally published in May 2008 and released as a paperback in January 2009. 
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." 
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. 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. 
Tom EngelhardtFellowTom Engelhardt created and runs TomDispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute. He is the author of the recently updated The End of Victory Culture (University of Massachusetts, 1998), a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, and 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 is The World According to Tomdispatch (Verso). 
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 latest book, Collateral Damage, co-authored with Laila Al-Arian and published by Nation Books, was released in June 2008. 
Scott HortonFellowScott Horton is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hofstra Law School for the academic year 2008-09, and a lecturer at Columbia University. He is also a legal affairs contributing editor at Harper's magazine where he writes the No Comment blog. A life-long human rights advocate, Scott served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia. He is also the author of a recent study on legal accountability for private military contractors, Private Security Contractors at War. 
Sheila KaplanFellowSheila Kaplan is a prize-winning investigative reporter and television producer who specializes in the environment, public health, and the role of money in politics. She is a lecturer in political reporting at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2001-02 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, Kaplan has won numerous other journalism honors, among them the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Prize for Distinguished Reporting, The Lowell Mellett Award for Media Criticism (now called the Bart Richards Prize), a Screenwriters Guild nomination and several national Emmy nominations. 
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, it is set to be translated into 20 languages to date. Klein is also the author of the international bestseller No Logo (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." 
Lewis 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. 
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. 
Pam 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 editor of Letters from Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) and author of Within the Veil (New York University, 2000), which won the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. She is also the editor of A Love No Less (Doubleday, 2003). 
Christian ParentiFellowChristian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation and a Fellow at The Nation Institute. The author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage and The Freedom, he writes for numerous publications including Fortune, Playboy, Mother Jones and The London Review of Books. Parenti has also worked on several documentaries including the award-winning Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. Parenti is working on a new book about global warming called Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, which will be published by Nation Books in June 2010. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 
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. 
Katha PollittShaffer FellowKatha Pollitt is the author of seven books, three of which are collections of political essays and columns: Reasonable Creatures (Vintage, 1995); Subject to Debate (Modern Library, 2001); and Virginity or Death! (Random House, 2006). Her most recent book, The Mind-Body Problem: And Other Poems is a book of brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Her previous book, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, is a collection of personal essays (Random House, 2007). 
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 15 books, most recently, 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. 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. 
Jeremy ScahillPuffin Foundation Writing FellowJeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist. He is 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. Blackwater was recently released in a thoroughly revised and updated paperback edition. 
Jonathan SchellDoris Shaffer 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). 
Philip WeissFellowPhilip Weiss is a writer with a long engagement in progressive issues. His latest project is a website he founded in 2006, called Mondoweiss, that explores Middle East policy, Israel/Palestine issues, and Jewish identity. He is widely traveled and has published two books, a political novel, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo, and American Taboo, an investigative account of a 1976 murder in the Peace Corps in the Kingdom of Tonga. 
Gary YoungeAlfred Knobler FellowGary Younge is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and a New York correspondent for The Guardian. His first book, No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South (Picador, 1999), was published to much acclaim and was released in the United States in 2002. His second book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (New Press, 2006), was released on both sides of the Atlantic. He was awarded Newspaper Journalist of the Year by the Ethnic Minority Media Awards in the UK in 2002, 2003 and 2004. |
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Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation. "John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Thomas Paine and Paul Revere of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril." —Bill Moyers More Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal: Theater PerformanceFebruary 4 - 13 | Across the United States
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