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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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Amy AlexanderAlfred Knobler FellowAmy Alexander is a journalist, author and editor. She edited a book on the controversial Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan called The Farrakhan Factor (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. 
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. 
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). 
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 the veggie revolution in Cuba. Her first book, Targeted: National Security and the Big Business of Immigration, was published in 2007. Fernandes is the founder and co-director of People's Production House, a national media justice training center headquartered in New York City. 
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. 
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 author of Within the Veil (New York University, 2000), which won the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. She more recently edited A Love No Less, (Doubleday, 2003) and is writing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be this fall. 
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. 
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 six 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, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, is a collection of personal essays (Random House, 2007). She is currently working on her next book of poetry, The Mind-Body Problem: And Other Poems. 
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. 
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 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). 
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. |
BlackwaterThe Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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