Investigative Reporters

Nation Institute

	Sharif Abdel Kouddous Sharif Abdel Kouddous is an independent journalist based in Cairo. For eight years he served as a senior producer, co-host, and correspondent for Democracy Now! and he remains a frequent contributor to the program. Originally from Cairo, he returned to Egypt in 2011 to cover the Egyptian revolution. He has written for The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Progressive, Al-Masry Al Youm, and Al-Ahram Weekly.
	Eric Alterman Eric Alterman is an award-winning writer and professor. He writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and is a senior fellow at American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the "Think Again" column. Alterman is the author of eight books, including the bestselling What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News and The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America . His latest book, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama, was published in 2011 by Nation Books.
	Wayne Barrett Wayne Barrett was a fixture at the Village Voice for almost four decades, doing his first investigative feature in 1973 and writing more than 2000 stories between then and 2011, when he left the paper. He has also written five books, including two on Rudy Giuliani, a biography of Donald Trump and City for Sale, a chronicle of the Koch scandals of the late 80s. He has been an adjunct at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for years, teaching courses on investigative and political reporting, as well as advising students on investigative projects. An army of his interns and students are now spread throughout American and international journalism.
	Ari Berman Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Editor & Publisher, and the Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on MSNBC, C-Span, and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in October 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
	Joe Conason A highly experienced journalist, author and editor, Joe Conason is a fellow at The Nation Institute, Editor at Large at The Investigative Fund and founder and editor-in-chief of the National Memo, a daily political newsletter and website. For 18 years he wrote a weekly political column for the New York Observer, where he formerly served as executive editor, and for 12 years he wrote a weekly column for Salon. He previously served as investigative editor of The American Prospect and editor-at-large for Conde Nast's Details . Before that, he worked for the Village Voice as a columnist, staff writer, and national correspondent.
	Tom Engelhardt Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch website, a project of The Nation Institute. His most recent book is The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's . He is also the author of a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his TomDispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished . Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
	Lee Fang Lee Fang is an Investigative Fund Fellow at The Nation Institute and a San Francisco-based journalist covering the intersection of lobbying, politics, and political movements. He is a contributing writer for the Nation, and has a book slated to appear in early 2013 on the campaign by conservatives to block President Obama's domestic agenda.
	Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Brooklyn-based journalist covering education, public health, economic mobility, and women’s issues. She is a contributing writer to The Nation and The Daily Beast, and in 2010 was a recipient of theSpencer Fellowship in Education Journalism. Goldstein is currently at work on a political history of the American teaching profession. She is a former associate editor at The Daily Beast and The American Prospect, and her writing has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Slate, The Washington Post, and The New Republic .
	Chris Hedges Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, 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. He is the author of the bestselling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003); his most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010).
	Scott Horton Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine, where he covers legal and national security issues. As a practicing attorney, Horton has focused on investment in emerging markets. He is also a life-long human rights advocate and serves as a director of the Moscow-based Andrei Sakharov Foundation. Horton has regularly appeared before Congress, most recently testifying before the House Judiciary and Senate Armed Services Committees on questions relating to the accountability of military contractors and the Justice Department's uneven management of public integrity matters.
	Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo . Her regular columns for The Nation magazine and the Guardian newspaper are syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. Her articles have also appeared in Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times . In 2004, she wrote and co-produced, with director Avi Lewis, the award-winning feature documentary, The Take, about Argentina's cooperatively-run, occupied factories. She holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.
	Dani McClain Dani McClain is an Oakland-based journalist covering reproductive rights and sexuality. She reported on education while on staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and her writing has appeared in outlets including the Miami Herald, The Root, Loop21, AlterNet, On the Issues, and Feministing. For four years McClain served as a strategist and media director at ColorOfChange, the nation's largest online black political organization. She played a leading role in campaigns that resulted in civil rights victories, including the withdrawal of more than two dozen corporations from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
	Pamela Newkirk Pamela Newkirk is professor of journalism at New York University and the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media, which won the prestigious National Press Club Arthur Rouse Award for Media Criticism. She is also editor of Letters from Black America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Beacon Press), and A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters (Doubleday). Her articles on race, media, and African American art and culture have been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Artnews, Essence and civil rights blog The Defenders Online. She is a fellow at The Nation Institute.
	Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow for The Nation Institute. She 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, 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).
	Gary Rivlin Long-time journalist Gary Rivlin is an Investigative Fund Fellow at The Nation Institute.A former New York Times reporter, he is the author of five books, including Fire on the Prairie. That book prompted the late Studs Terkel to compare him to I.F. Stone and write, "Rivlin saw clearly what other journalists were blind to, and reported what they had non-reported." Rivlin's most recent book is Broke, USA, which the New Yorker's James Surowiecki described as a "blistering new investigation of the subprime economy." Rivlin is currently writing a new book for Simon & Schuster about New Orleans post-Katrina, which he covered for seven months while on staff with the Times .
	Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, an award-winning investigative journalist, and the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2008). His latest book is Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation Books, 2013). National Security Correspondent for the Nation, he has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe. He is also a producer and writer of the film Dirty Wars, selected for the US documentary competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
	Jonathan Schell Jonathan Schell is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Fate of The Earth, The Real War, The Time of Illusion, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. He is the Doris M. Shaffer Fellow at The Nation Institute, the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine, and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches a course on the nuclear dilemma and a course on nonviolent political action.
	Mychal Denzel Smith Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute and blogger for TheNation.com. As a freelance writer, social commentator, and mental health advocate, his work has been seen online in outlets such as the Atlantic, Salon, Al Jazeera English, Gawker, the Guardian, Huffington Post, the Root, the Grio, and GOOD. His writing covers a range of topics, including but not limited to race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip-hop, mental health, feminism, and black male identity, particularly for millenials in the age of Obama.
	Nick Turse Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of The Nation Institute's TomDispatch. He is the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and the editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Turse was the recipient of a Ridenhour Prize at the National Press Club in April 2009 for his years-long investigation of mass civilian slaughter by US troops in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, in 1968-1969, during Operation Speedy Express. He is currently a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at work on Kill Anything That Moves, a history of US atrocities during the Vietnam War.
	Kai Wright Kai Wright is an Investigative Fund Fellow at The Nation Institute and editorial director of Colorlines.His investigative reporting and news analysis appears regularly in The Nation, The Root, and The American Prospect, among other publications. His work explores the politics of sex, race, and health. Kai is also author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York, as well as two books of African-American history.
	Gary Younge Alfred Knobler fellow Gary Younge is an award-winning New York-based columnist for The Guardian and The Nation and an acclaimed author. In 2009 he won the British James Cameron award for his coverage of the 2008 presidential election. His most recent book, on politics and identity, is Who are We — and Should it Matter in the 21st Century? His previous books include Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South . Formerly the Belle Zeller visiting professor of public policy and social administration at Brooklyn College, CUNY he has two honorary degrees from British universities.