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Edwin O. Guthman dies at 89

Edwin O. Guthman, 89, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman respected for his unwavering integrity and whose storied career included stints as a soldier, a public servant, an educator, and editor of…

Jeb Sharp a Recipient of Sigma Delta Chi Award

The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on April 14. Jeb Sharp, Class of 2006, was part of…

Jack Landau Dies at 74

Jack Landau, 74, an early leader of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, died Aug. 9 of complications from emphysema. Landau, a reporter-lawyer covering the U.S. Supreme Court…

2008 Lovejoy Award Recipient Anne Hull

Anne Hull, a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who reported the story that exposed the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal in 2007 and has spent her…

Nieman Foundation Names New Fellow to Class of 2009

The Nieman Foundation has selected Russian journalist Fatima Tlisova as a member of the Nieman Class of 2009.

NABJ Honors Five Niemans with 2008 Salute to Excellence Award

Five Nieman Fellows were among the 2008 recipients of the National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Awards. The annual awards recognize exemplary coverage of the African and African-American…

John Walcott Receives First I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence for pre-Iraq War Coverage

John Walcott, Washington bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., is the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

Editor Who Shaped Chicago Tribune Steps Down

Ann Marie Lipinski, 30 summers after she arrived at the Chicago Tribune for what was supposed to be a three-month internship and seven years after becoming its first female editor,…

Seattle Times Reporters Awarded National Journalism Prize

Seattle Times investigative reporter David Heath, Class of 2006, and colleague Hal Bernton have won the national Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting for their series "The Favor…

Washington Post Taps Marcus Brauchli as New Executive Editor

Marcus Brauchli, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, has been named executive editor of The Washington Post, returning him to the top ranks of American journalism less than three months after Rupert…