Ines Pohl has joined Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C., and will begin her new job in November. A 2005 Nieman Fellow, she has served as chief editor of the Berlin-based German daily Die Tageszeitung, … Read more
Danny Schechter, a television producer, media critic, anti-apartheid activist and 1978 Nieman Fellow, completed his final book, “Surveillance A to Z,” before he died in March 2015. Seven Stories Press will publish the book in January 2016. Read more
Mary Beth Sheridan has been named deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post, where she has worked as a reporter and editor since 2001. She has covered topics including diplomacy, homeland security and immigration. Prior to her … Read more
Wendell Steavenson’s new book, “Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution” chronicles the experiences of Egyptians grappling with the hope, change and violence associated with protests in Cairo’s Tahir Square. Steavenson, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, spent more than a … Read more
Denise-Marie Ordway has joined Journalist’s Resource as a research reporter and editor. An online project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the site curates scholarly studies and reports. Previously, Ordway covered education for the Orlando Sentinel in Florida … Read more
Karim Ben Khelifa has received a 2015 Doris Duke New Frontier Fellowship from the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, which offers funding for fellows to develop and refine audience engagement for their exploratory projects. Khelifa, a photojournalist, … Read more
Laurie Penny has been named a 2015 Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she will write and speak about digital rights, social justice, technology, and culture. Penny is a contributing editor at New Statesman … Read more
