Callie Crossley, a WGBH host and 1983 Nieman Fellow, won a Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association, and a Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press radio … Read more
On the eve of South African journalist Nat Nakasa’s reburial, Joe Thloloe, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, gave the inaugural Nakasa commemorative lecture. “Nat’s life and struggle have been vindicated,” Thloloe said. Nakasa, a 1965 Nieman Fellow, died in New … Read more
Jane Spencer is now editor in chief for digital content at Fusion. Spencer, a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was a founding editor of The Daily Beast. Read more
Brett Anderson received a first-place award from the Society for Features Journalism for his restaurant reviews in The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. Read more
Laura Amico has been named news editor for multimedia and data projects at The Boston Globe. Amico, who founded Homicide Watch D.C., had been editor of Boston public radio station WBUR’s Learning Lab. Read more
Raquel Rutledge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, will be an O’Brien Fellow at Marquette University for the 2014–15 academic year. Read more
Alejandra Matus’s unauthorized biography of General Augusto Pinochet’s widow, Lucia Hiriart, was published in November by Ediciones B. In writing “Doña Lucia,” Matus interviewed friends, relatives, former employees, and former members of Pinochet’s regime. Read more
Beth Macy’s “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town” was published in July by Little, Brown. She won the 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Read more
Chris Vognar received a first-place award from the Society for Features Journalism for his film reviews in The Dallas Morning News. The judges praised Vognar for his ability to show “what movies say about the times we live in.” … Read more
Julia Reynolds’s book, “Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California’s Nuestra Familia Gang,” will be released in September by Chicago Review Press. Reynolds, a staff writer at The Monterey County Herald, details the FBI’s decade-long effort to take down … Read more
