New Breed of Multimedia Foreign Correspondent — Naka Nathaniel

Naka Nathaniel is a web journalist based in Los Angeles for The New York Times. Nathaniel, a UT alumni, returns to the campus lately to speak to several journalism classes.

He's been called "new breed of multimedia foreign correspondent" and in the last five years, he has toted his cameras, computers and communications gear to produce multimedia features from A (Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) to Z (Zimbabwe) -- including the three countries in President Bush's "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran and North Korea.)

He regularly travels to the developing world with Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof producing multimedia special reports. Kristof  was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for the work and the pair were nominated for an Emmy award for their reporting on the genocide in Darfur.

On September 11, he filmed the second plane crash from his Brooklyn rooftop. A Sequence of shots from the tape were the dominant images on NYTimes.com during the day and the footage was broadcast on ABC.

He is last member of the editorial team that launched NYTimes.com in January 1996 to still be working for The Times.  

A graduate of the University of Texas, he joined The Times as an intern at the  newspaper in 1995. He married to Meredith Artley, the executive editor of LATimes.com.