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Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08, wins UNCA’s Elizabeth Neuffer Prize

Bolivian journalist Raul Peñaranda, NF '08, has received the United Nations Correspondents Association’s 2012 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize (gold) for written media. U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, presented the award…

Nieman’s 2012 Year in Review

The Nieman Foundation’s 2012 Annual Report is now online. It examines the many events and changes that took place during the past year including news about programming developments and collaborative…

Nieman announces 2013 Visiting Fellows

The Nieman Foundation has selected three journalists as Visiting Fellows for the 2013 calendar year. Each will spend a period of time at Harvard University to work on a project…

La periodista mexicana Marcela Turati gana el Premio Louis M. Lyons a la conciencia e integridad en el periodismo

Los Nieman Fellows de la Universidad de Harvard han decidido otorgar a Marcela Turati, de la revista mexicana Proceso, el Premio Louis Lyons a la conciencia e integridad en el…

Mexican journalist Marcela Turati wins Lyons Award

The Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Marcela Turati of the Mexican newsmagazine Proceso as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in…

Journalist James Geary named deputy curator at Nieman Foundation

Editor and author James Geary, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has been selected as the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. In this position he will serve as editor…

James R. Whelan, First Editor of The Washington Times, Dies at 79

James R. Whelan, the founding editor and publisher of The Washington Times, the newspaper established in 1982 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his South Korea-based Unification Church, died…

John Harwood, NF ’90, named Nieman board chair

John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times, has been tapped to lead the Nieman Foundation’s Advisory Board. A Nieman Fellow in…

New York Times Correspondent C.J. Chivers to deliver Morris Lecture

C. J. Chivers, senior writer for The New York Times, will deliver the 32nd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov.…

Alternative news pioneer Sandy Close wins the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal

Sandy Close, executive editor and director of Pacific News Service (PNS), has been selected as winner of the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism…