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

H. Brandt “Brandy” Ayers, a longtime Alabama newspaper executive and a 1968 Nieman Fellow, died on May 3. He was 85.From the mid-1960s until 2016, Ayers was publisher of The…
May 5, 2020
Maria Hinojosa receives the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

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

Cambridge, Mass. — Pioneering journalist and multimedia entrepreneur Maria Hinojosa has been selected as winner of the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism…
April 29, 2020
Pamela Colloff’s probe of jailhouse informants for ProPublica, New York Times wins Taylor Award

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

Cambridge, Mass. — Reporter Pamela Colloff’s investigation of the dangers of relying on jailhouse informants, “He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a…
April 24, 2020
The Wall Street Journal and Frontline win Bingham Prize for Indian Health Service investigation

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

Cambridge, Mass. — “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service,” a joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal and PBS’s “Frontline,” is the winner of the 2019 Worth Bingham Prize for…
April 21, 2020
Nieman Reports wins 2019 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

Nieman Reports wins 2019 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

News announcement from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An entry deemed to have unrivaled breadth and depth — with print and online elements…
April 10, 2020
Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

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

Ernest Eugene “Gene” Pell, a 1975 Nieman Fellow and a longtime broadcast journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the final years of the Cold War, died at his…
April 10, 2020
Winners and finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Winners and finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and the two finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards. The…
March 18, 2020
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prizes shortlist

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

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2020 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas…
February 25, 2020
Nieman Foundation announces the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows

Nieman Foundation announces the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected a group of eight media innovators as the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows. The group includes a features writer, an editor/producer,…
January 16, 2020
Under the influence of architecture critic Whitney Gould, NF ’74

Under the influence of architecture critic Whitney Gould, NF ’74

When I arrived at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the summer of 2000, Whitney Gould and I were part of a team that covered the biggest cultural story in our…
December 19, 2019