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Mark Trahant, who for more than five decades has worked for and led newsrooms in the American West, has been selected for the 2025 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence in recognition…

Fellows in the class of 2025 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism have chosen +972 Magazine, an independent, nonprofit news organization run by a binational team of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, for this…

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the four winners and three finalists of the 2025 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project…

Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota,who founded Zimbabwe’s influential independent newspaper The Daily News and was a courageous champion for press freedom in his country, died of colon cancer on March 22, 2025. He was 74.  Nyarota…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has announced the named fellowships for the class of 2025. These fellowships are supported by foundation grants and endowed funds that provide important financial…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is pleased to welcome journalists Edward Wong and Jason Rezaian as members of the Nieman Advisory Board. The board, comprised of leading journalists,…

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2025 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas…

Lipinski steered Nieman through a period of historic change for the news industry and deepened collaboration with the Harvard community

Mark Armstrong, an accomplished producer, writer and founder of the acclaimed Longreads website, has been appointed the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the Nieman Foundation’s online publication showcasing exceptional narrative journalism and…

The journalist made national headlines when he was kidnapped in 1974.