James Scott ’97
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
The Post & Courier, Charleston, S.C.
EDUCATION
B.S., Wofford College (1997)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Scott has made a name for himself as a reporter with several trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. He also covered the tsunami in Indonesia as well as Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. His investigation into financial irregularities of the nonprofit Good Samaritan Mission resulted in the founder’s arrest in 2005 on 13 charges, including multiple felonies of criminal tax evasion and fraud. In addition to other coveted awards for journalism, Scott was named 2003 Journalist of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association and won “Best of the Best” in feature writing for a story chronicling his search for the spot where his father was wounded in the Vietnam War.
He was a 2001 South Carolina Fiction Project winner and is the author of The Other Side of Home: The Journal of an American Student in Spain, published by Holocene Publications, June 2005. Scott was recently named to the 69th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard. Only 28 journalists internationally were selected for the honor. He will study the exploitation of Latinos in the U.S. labor force and the rise of antiimmigrant legislation.