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Mystical Ecumenism: Photography from Islam’s heartlands

Travel through the heartlands of Sufism with the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis. The exhibition runs Feb. 5 - March 10 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

NPR’s Gwen Thompkins to Deliver Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture

Gwen Thompkins, East Africa Correspondent for National Public Radio, will present the 2009 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on February 5,…

James Colvin dies at 96

James E. Colvin, a scholar and one of the oldest living fellows, died Jan. 4, 2009, at 96. He was a member of the Class of 1942.
Documentary film brings the lost history of the Ellis Island Hospital to life

Documentary film brings the lost history of the Ellis Island Hospital to life

“Forgotten Ellis Island” — a documentary film directed by Lorie Conway, a 1994 Nieman Fellow — will be broadcast nationally on PBS on Feb. 2, at 10 pm ET. Narrated…

Obama’s Indonesian Classroom

Endy M. Bayuni, a 2004 Nieman Fellow, shares how living in Jakarta, Indonesia, may have helped shape the man who would become the 44th President of the United States.

GlobalPost tries to fill news gap

GlobalPost.com, the news organization started by Charles Sennott, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, went live Jan. 12. The free Web site, supported by ads, went live Monday and will offer regular…

Roberta Baskin receives duPont award

Robert Baskin, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, and her team from WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, received a 2009 duPont-Columbia Award for "Drilling for Dollars: Children’s Dentistry Investigation." In this series, Baskin…

The Press and the Presidency

Ellen Fitzpatrick, an American Historian/Scholar and commentator on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, was among several esteemed journalists invited to address the attendees of our 70th Anniversary Convocation Weekend, Nov.…

EXPOSÉ follows up on David Heath’s investigation of pork barrel politics

David Heath, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, returns to Exposé and Bill Moyers Journal. Heath, and fellow Seattle Times reporter Christine Willmsen, unearth at least 155 hidden earmarks worth $3.5 billion…

Exploring the Other: Contemporary Iran Through the lens of Iason Athanasiadis

An exhibit on contemporary Iran, "Exploring the Other" offers an alternative narrative of the country famously included in the “Axis of Evil” by President George W. Bush. Through the vivid…