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NIEMAN REPORTS

How trans journalists are challenging and changing journalism

Trans reporters want more accurate and more sensitive coverage of trans issues.

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Apply for a 2020 Visiting Nieman Fellowship

The Sept. 27 deadline for the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships is fast approaching. Apply today for a chance to come to Harvard to work on your great idea to advance journalism.

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Yes, local newspapers still matter

A new study finds that despite the economic hardships that local newspapers have endured, they remain, by far, the most significant providers of journalism in their communities.

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An intriguing bit of crowd-sourcing

When police in Oregon, couldn’t find relatives or friends of a dead WWII veteran, a reporter at The Oregonian dove into public records and found what the police had missed—in three hours.

Fellowships

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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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Foundation News

Kim Yong-koo, managing editor of the Korea Times and a 1963 Nieman Fellow, dies at 90

Nieman Foundation announces named fellowships for the class of 2020

Mitchel R. Levitas, editor and reporter at New York Times for almost 40 years and a 1959 Nieman Fellow, dies at 89

Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announces the 82nd class of Nieman Fellows

Dejan Anastasijevic, a 2002 Nieman Fellow and highly respected veteran journalist in Serbia, dies at 57

“Sign Here to Lose Everything” by Bloomberg News wins 2018 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism

James F. Ahearn, a 1971 Nieman Fellow and longtime reporter and editor in New Jersey, dies at 87

“Pain and Profit” by The Dallas Morning News wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Robert J. “Bud” Korengold, a 1964 Nieman Fellow who served as a foreign correspondent in Europe before transitioning to a career in diplomacy, has died at 89

Top Mother Jones executives Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

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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