Ralph Otwell, a 1960 Nieman Fellow and former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, died on March 8, 2017 from complications from heart failure in Evanston, Illinois. He was 90. During his 15-plus years as editor of the … Read more
Lawrence G. Weiss, a 1949 Nieman Fellow who was a longtime editorial writer for The Denver Post before becoming a public affairs advisor, died in Boulder, … Read more
Roy Reed, a 1964 Nieman Fellow who covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times, died December 10 in Fayetteville, Arkansas after suffering a stroke. He was 87. Reed spent much of his career at … Read more
Simeon Booker, a 1951 Nieman Fellow and a legendary civil rights reporter who headed the Washington bureau for Jet and Ebony magazines for five decades, died in Solomons, Maryland on December 10. He was 99. Read more
Gerald P. Grant, a 1968 Nieman Fellow and an education editor at The Washington Post before pursuing a career in the sociology of education, died in his Syracuse, New York home on September 20. He was 79. Read more
Michael Green, a 1968 Nieman Fellow who served at the helm of South Africa’s Daily News and Sunday Tribune during the height of apartheid, died August 30 in Durban, South Africa. He was 87. A longtime journalist, … Read more
Richard Dudman, a 1954 Nieman Fellow and longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who, while on assignment in Cambodia, was ambushed by Viet Cong fighters and held in captivity for more than a month, died August 3 in … Read more
Cornelia Bowling Carrier, one of the first environmental reporters in the South and a 1976 Nieman Fellow, died April 8 at the age of 78. Her Nieman classmate Peter Behr wrote this obituary, with comments from some of their fellow fellows: … Read more
Zvi Dor-Ner, a 1977 Nieman Fellow and a longtime WGBH executive producer, died in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer on April 6. He was 75. Dor-Ner spent three decades at WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate, where he … Read more
Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California after battling cancer. Read more