Awards

Veteran Reporter Jon Alpert Wins the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

The Nieman Foundation will present the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to Jon Alpert. An investigative reporter, producer and documentary filmmaker whose career has spanned more than 35…
August 19, 2009

Fatima Tlisova to Receive Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to current Nieman Fellow Fatima Tlisova on…
April 29, 2009

Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Nieman Foundation Announce Winners of the 2009 Lukas Prize Project Awards

The recipients of the 2009 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction include works by authors Jane Mayer, Timothy Brook, and Judy Pasternak.
March 30, 2009

The Charlotte Observer wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for Series on Problems in Poultry Industry

The Charlotte Observer has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for its coverage of health and safety violations in the poultry industry. The paper’s series “The Cruelest…
March 16, 2009

Detroit Free Press Wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “A Mayor in Crisis”

Staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick and their colleagues at the Detroit Free Press are winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for their comprehensive series…
February 13, 2009

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,…
January 30, 2009

‘Power and money and celebrity can blind you’

John Walcott warns: 'Instead of being members of the Fourth Estate, too many Washington reporters have been itching to move up an estate or two.' He also argues against the…
October 8, 2008

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.
July 23, 2008

Chauncey Bailey Honored with Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

The Nieman Foundation presented the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism posthumously to Chauncey Bailey on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
May 6, 2008

Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for Reports on Race

Chicago Tribune Southwest Bureau Chief Howard Witt has won the 2008 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for his coverage of racial issues in America.
April 16, 2008