Awards

Raymond T. Bonner of The New York Times was awarded the 1996 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.In naming Bonner, who is a correspondent based in…

The Nieman Foundation presented the 1995 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to Olatunji Dare, former editorial chairman for the Guardian Group of Newspapers in Lagos,…

The Nieman class of 1994 honored Abdelhamid Benzine, editor of the independent daily newspaper Alger Republicain in Algeria, with the Lyons Award. Mr. Benzine has been fighting for a free…

In 1993, the journalists of Oslobodjenje (Liberation), a daily newspaper from Sarajevo, received the award. They kept their newspaper alive and on the streets in spite of Serbian attacks that…

Jean Mario Paul, a correspondent with Radio Antilles Internationale in Haiti, is the 1992 recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism, the Nieman Foundation…

Max du Preez of South Africa and Gitobu Imanyara of Kenya have won the 1991 Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism, the Nieman Foundation at Harvard…

Journalists in Colombia under attack for covering the drug wars have won the 1990 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University announced…

Helena Luczywo, an independent Polish journalist and organizer of the underground press, has won the 1989 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, the Nieman Foundation at…

Monica Gonzalez, a Chilean journalist under attack by the regime of General Augusto Pinochet for her interviews with opposition leaders and her investigations of government officials, including Pinochet himself, has…

Text from a Nieman news release issued in 1987.Zwelakhe Sisulu, an opposition newspaper editor jailed by South African authorities, has won the 1987 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and…