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Nieman Lab announces staff changes

Nieman Lab announces staff changes

Two journalists at Nieman Lab, the Nieman Foundation’s publication covering digital innovation and change in journalism, are moving into new roles beginning on July 1, 2020.Deputy editor Laura Hazard Owen…
June 24, 2020
An appreciation: Ed Lambeth, journalist, educator and 1968 Nieman Fellow

An appreciation: Ed Lambeth, journalist, educator and 1968 Nieman Fellow

In Nieman Storyboard, award-winning journalist and author Walt Harrington remembers his friend and mentor Ed Lambeth, a 1968 Nieman Fellow, who died on May 2, 2020. Lambeth was a Washington,…
May 8, 2020
Walt Harrington

Brandy Ayers, longtime Alabama newspaper executive and NF ’68, dies at 85

H. Brandt “Brandy” Ayers, a longtime Alabama newspaper executive and a 1968 Nieman Fellow, died on May 3. He was 85.From the mid-1960s until 2016, Ayers was publisher of The…
May 5, 2020
Maria Hinojosa receives the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Maria Hinojosa receives the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Cambridge, Mass. — Pioneering journalist and multimedia entrepreneur Maria Hinojosa has been selected as winner of the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism…
April 29, 2020
Pamela Colloff’s probe of jailhouse informants for ProPublica, New York Times wins Taylor Award

Pamela Colloff’s probe of jailhouse informants for ProPublica, New York Times wins Taylor Award

Cambridge, Mass. — Reporter Pamela Colloff’s investigation of the dangers of relying on jailhouse informants, “He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a…
April 24, 2020
The Wall Street Journal and Frontline win Bingham Prize for Indian Health Service investigation

The Wall Street Journal and Frontline win Bingham Prize for Indian Health Service investigation

Cambridge, Mass. — “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service,” a joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal and PBS’s “Frontline,” is the winner of the 2019 Worth Bingham Prize for…
April 21, 2020
Nieman Reports wins 2019 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

Nieman Reports wins 2019 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism

News announcement from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An entry deemed to have unrivaled breadth and depth — with print and online elements…
April 10, 2020
Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

Ernest Eugene “Gene” Pell, a 1975 Nieman Fellow and a longtime broadcast journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the final years of the Cold War, died at his…
April 10, 2020
Whitney Gould, influential architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, dies at 76

Whitney Gould, influential architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, dies at 76

Whitney Gould, a longtime architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, died at her home in Milwaukee in early December. She was 76.1974 Nieman Fellow…
December 16, 2019
Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for President Jimmy Carter, dies at 89

Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for President Jimmy Carter, dies at 89

Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as a special assistant for press affairs under President Jimmy Carter, died from congestive heart failure on…
October 30, 2019