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A journalist wrestles with the complex history of racism in America

Watch and listen as Issac J. Bailey reflects on what he learned about race in America from a visit to Ghana.

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The news joins the rituals of mourning

A haunting front page and essay in The New York Times is more than a chronicle of the dead in the era of coronavirus.

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Starting July 1, Nieman Lab’s deputy editor Laura Hazard Owen will become editor; Lab director Joshua Benton will return to reporting as a senior writer covering media news.

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Since 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism has brought more than 1,600 promising and accomplished journalists from 98 countries to Harvard for a year of study, innovation and experimentation.

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From the Curator

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Alumni Perspectives

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Foundation News

Nieman Lab announces staff changes

An appreciation: Ed Lambeth, journalist, educator and 1968 Nieman Fellow

Brandy Ayers, longtime Alabama newspaper executive and NF ’68, dies at 85

Maria Hinojosa receives the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Pamela Colloff’s probe of jailhouse informants for ProPublica, New York Times wins Taylor Award

The Wall Street Journal and Frontline win Bingham Prize for Indian Health Service investigation

Nieman Reports wins 2019 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

Winners and finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prizes shortlist

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The Nieman Foundation publishes Nieman Reports, a website and quarterly magazine chronicling contemporary challenges and opportunities in journalism; Nieman Journalism Lab, a website reporting on digital media innovation; Nieman Storyboard, a website exploring the art and craft of nonfiction storytelling; as well as a series of print and e-books about current issues in journalism

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How To Make J-school Matter (Again)

Amy Webb's new approach to curriculum and classroom education

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Be the Disruptor

Clayton M. Christensen applies the lessons of disruptive innovation to the media

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The Gates of Harvard Yard

Pulitzer-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin on Harvard's iconic portals

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Telling True Stories

Practical craft tips on narrative nonfiction from some of America's leading journalists