WSJ’s Libetti named Nieman Fellow

Robert Libetti

Robert Libetti, an executive producer for The Wall Street Journal where he leads video investigations and documentaries, has been named a Nieman Fellow.

He will study the intersection of open-source research, traditional journalism and documentary filmmaking.

Libetti’s team has produced video investigations about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, TikTok’s algorithm, and the war in Ukraine. They have also produced documentaries about Covid-19’s impact on American businesses and the global supply chain crisis, as well as an investigative series about Amazon’s marketplace.

In recent years, his team has earned four Emmy nominations, a Philip Meyer Award for investigative journalism, two SABEW awards, and two Gerald Loeb nominations.

Before becoming the executive producer of news and specials, Libetti was a senior video journalist at the Journal for four years. Prior to joining the Journal, he was a senior video producer for Business Insider, where he helped launch the video department.

All of the Nieman Fellows can be found here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.