Fernando Rodrigues, Class of 2008, assembled a database with some 25,000 records of Brazilian politicians showing electoral information and personal data — including the list of personal assets of each politician who run for office in the three past general elections in Brazil. Read more
Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and member of the Class of 1989, will serve as one of two featured speakers for the Seventh Annual Leadership Conference Celebrating Black History Month presented by Troy University and the City of Troy. Tucker is an editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated opinion columnist. Read more
James Causey, Class of 2008, is one of two writers to recently join the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board. He will write on urban affairs once he finishes his year as a Nieman Fellow. Read more
Three major investigative reports that used social science research methods as key parts of their probes were named today as winners of the 2007 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. Among them, The Dallas Morning News' Josh Benton — Class of 2008 — took top honors for “Faking the Grade” investigation. Read more
In early November, President Pervez Musharraf's government pulled the plug on Pakistan's most popular television news channel, independent Geo-TV. Bill Schiller, Class of 2006, talks to Pakistani Geo television reporter Absar Alam, Class of 2005, about what the TV channel did to incur the wrath of the Musharraf government. Read more
BBC Producer Simon Wilson, Class of 2008, blogs from Cambridge about the crisis in the American newspaper industry, and the BBC's role in national and international news reporting. Read more
Philip J. Hilts, the author of six books and a prize-winning health and science reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post, has been named the third director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships. He is a member of the Nieman Class of 1985. Read more
He’s been sentenced to jail, saw his publication banned and was forced to leave his country. Moroccan Editor/Publisher Aboubakr Jamaï, Class of 2007-2008, is the first recipient of the Tully Center for Free Speech Award. Read more
Frederick Pillsbury, Class of 1957, died Jan. 1 after a long illness. A Harvard Graduate, Pillsbury began his journalism career at the Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger as an editorial writer. He worked at the Boston Herald two separate times, and ended his career in retirement from the Boston Globe. Read more
