Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and two finalists of the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting … Read more
CHICAGO –The University of Chicago Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announce the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference for reporters covering the 2024 races for control of state legislatures, Congress and the … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2023 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize. Read more
Jerrold L. Schecter, a 1964 Nieman Fellow who reported from Asia, the Soviet Union and the White House for Time magazine and wrote for several other publications, died at his home in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, … Read more
Bruce Locklin, a 1978 Nieman Fellow, died in Cranbury, New Jersey, on Oct. 24, 2022, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. In 1973, Locklin became one of the nation’s first full-time investigative … Read more
Pakistani journalist Zawwar Hasan, a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1967, died in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2022, after a brief illness. He was 96. During his long career in journalism, Hasan worked … Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has announced the named fellowships for the class of 2023. These fellowships are supported by foundation grants and endowed funds that provide important financial assistance to journalists from the United … Read more
Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota journalist, newspaper pioneer and 1991 Nieman Fellow, died in Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 24, 2022, at the age of 88. In 1981, Giago founded the Lakota Times (later … Read more
Bernard Edinger, a 1985 Nieman Fellow, died in Paris on June 25, 2022. He was 80 years old and had recently been battling leukemia. A French national, Edinger grew up in the United States in … Read more
Barry Sussman, the Washington Post editor who directed coverage of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, died on June 1, 2022, at his home in Rockville, Maryland. He was 87. Sussman oversaw the … Read more
