Awards

Nieman Fellows Honor Iranian Woman’s Magazine Editor With 2005 Louis Lyons Award

The 2005 Class of Nieman Fellows has selected Shahla Sherkat, founder and publisher of the Iranian women's magazine Zanan, to receive the 2005 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity…
May 2, 2005

The Star-Ledger Series on School for Troubled Teens Wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

"Last Chance High," a series by The Star-Ledger of Newark about an alternative school for teenagers with serious behavioral problems, has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers.
March 18, 2005

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief, Will Deliver 24th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, is the 24th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
March 8, 2005

Toledo Blade Report on Vietnam War Atrocities Wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

A report by The Blade of Toledo that uncovered Vietnam-era war crimes kept secret for three and a half decades has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers.
May 17, 2004

Nieman Fellows Honor Belarus Radio Editor With 2004 Louis Lyons Award

Zhanna Litvina, a pioneering radio journalist in Belarus, has been selected by the sitting class of Nieman Fellows to receive the 2004 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in…
May 3, 2004

Crimson Staffers Win Christopher J. Georges Fellowship

Michael M. Grynbaum and Stephen M. Marks will report on Harvard College admissions policies and processes through a fellowship awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Grynbaum covers local…
April 6, 2004

Columbia and Nieman Foundation Announce 2004 Lukas Prize Project Awards

A definitive work on the Vietnam era by David Maraniss, a biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit and an examination of slavery by John Bowe were named the…
March 29, 2004

Anthony Shadid, Washington Post Foreign Correspondent, To Deliver 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, will be the 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
February 3, 2004

Nieman Fellows Honor Late Zimbabwe Journalist With 2003 Louis Lyons Award

Mark Chavunduka, the founding editor of The Zimbabwe Standard, has been selected by Harvard University's Nieman Fellows to receive the 2003 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.
June 3, 2003

Nathan Heller Wins Christopher J. Georges Harvard Crimson Fellowship

Nathan Heller, a Harvard College freshman, will investigate the effects of post-Sept. 11 legislation on Harvard University through a fellowship awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund.
May 21, 2003