Awards

The Associated Press wins 2015 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Seafood From Slaves”

The Associated Press wins 2015 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Seafood From Slaves”

The Associated Press has won the 2015 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with its trailblazing series “Seafood From Slaves,” which exposed the abusive and inhumane practices common in…
April 6, 2016
Announcing the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist

Announcing the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2016 shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards — the J.…
February 22, 2016
Chinese author Yang Jisheng wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

Chinese author Yang Jisheng wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In recognition of his ambitious and fearless reporting, Nieman Fellows in the class of 2016 at Harvard University have selected Chinese journalist and author Yang Jisheng for…
December 7, 2015
I.F. Stone winner Robert Parry on “maintaining your independence, whatever the pressures”

I.F. Stone winner Robert Parry on “maintaining your independence, whatever the pressures”

Investigative reporter Robert Parry, founder and editor of Consortiumnews.com, may be best known for breaking many of the stories related to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s. He received the 2015…
November 23, 2015
Investigative Reporter Robert Parry to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Investigative Reporter Robert Parry to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

In recognition of a career distinguished by meticulously researched investigations, intrepid questioning and reporting that has challenged both conventional wisdom and mainstream media, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard…
July 21, 2015
Presentation of the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

Presentation of the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

The Nieman Foundation presented the 48th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the 14th annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism on May 7, 2015. The Miami Herald won the Bingham…
May 7, 2015

Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras”

The Chicago Tribune has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2014 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras” a comprehensive series that exposed the corruption and mismanagement of…
April 7, 2015

Jenny Nordberg, Harold Holzer and Dan Egan Win the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

The recipients of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards include groundbreaking reporting on bacha posh, the practice of girls raised as boys in Afghanistan, by Jenny Nordberg; a…
April 2, 2015

The Miami Herald’s “Innocents Lost” series wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Miami Herald’s meticulously researched and reported “Innocents Lost” series, which examines the deaths of hundreds of children in Florida, has won the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.…
April 1, 2015
Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2015 have selected prominent Turkish journalist and writer Hasan Cemal as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity…
December 16, 2014