"A Violent Response," a documentary by 2010 Global Health Fellow Hopewell Chin'ono, has been nominated for a BANFF World Television Award. The film—a look at Zimbabwe's post-election violence—will be aired in June on the BBC in the UK to mark the anniversary of the 2008 Zimbabwean elections. Read more
The World Affairs Council of New Hampshire announced its annual Spring Forum Fundraiser on April 27 at Southern New Hampshire University. This year's topic was “Covering the World”: A Nieman Fellows Panel Discussion on the Future of International Journalism . Read more
Kabral Blay-Amihere, chairman of National Media Commission in Ghana and a 1991 Nieman Fellow, recently published his third book, “Between the Lion and the Elephant: Memoirs of an African Diplomat.” The chronicles the achievements, challenges and experiences of the author as Ghana’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire. Read more
A.M. "Mac" Secrest, who as the editor of a small-town newspaper in South Carolina crusaded against Southern resistance to desegregation in the 1950s, has died. He was a 1961 Nieman Fellow. Read more
2010 Nieman Fellow Marcela Valdes received the first Annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism by the Center for Fiction in New York City on Saturday, April 17. The award is devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics. Read more
Deborah Amos, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, will receive the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award/Radio Division on April 20 at Washington State University. Following the award presentation, Amos will exchange views about media ethics and responsibility in a roundtable discussion. Read more
Gene Weingarten was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Featuring Writing for "Fatal Distraction." In March 2009, the Washington Post Magazine published his story about parents who accidentally left infants and toddlers in the backseats of cars, leading to the childrens' death. Weingarten is a 1988 Nieman Fellow. Read more
The Spring 2010 issue of Daedalus on “The Future of News” includes an essay by Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation, in which he explores new economic models for U.S. journalism, including foundation grants and government subsidies. Read more
“Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty” is a stranger-than-fiction account of a fisherman who stole millions of dollars worth of some of the world’s most extraordinary marine creatures and led wildlife detectives on a multiyear odyssey. Craig Welch is the chief environmental writer at The Seattle Times and a 2007 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Robert Caro, a 1966 Nieman Fellow, is to be inducted into the newly created New York State Writers Hall of Fame on Friday, April 9. Caro is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Read more
