Only one of seven crew members survived the sudden sinking of the Lady Mary, a scallop boat, in March 2009. Reporter Amy Ellis Nutt, NF ’05, spent seven months unraveling clues, and in November 2010, her five-part series, “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” appeared on the front page of the Star-Ledger and on its website, where it featured photographs and video by her colleague Andre Malok. Nutt was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Read more
Tony Bartelme, a 2011 Nieman Fellow, was among the winners of the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Bartelme, projects reporter, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, received the third place award in Community News for "One Brain at a Time." Read more
When BBC journalist and 2011 Nieman Fellow Philippa Thomas wrote recently about a talk given by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley at MIT, little did she know that her blog post would have far-reaching results. Read more
Outstanding journalists at the forefront of the battle for press freedom were honored Tuesday, Nov. 24 at the Committee to Protect Journalists' 20th Annual International Press Freedom Awards benefit dinner. Among those honored was J.S. (Tissa) Tissainayagam, a formerly imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist who was given a CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2009, received his award in person. Tissainayagam is a 2011 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Hollman Morris, a 2011 Nieman Fellow, has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award. The award, presented every two years,“is intended to contribute towards the observance and implementation of Human Rights as a universal and indivisible principle.” Read more
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more
The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend his Nieman Fellowship. Read more
