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The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is now accepting applications for the second round of Abrams Nieman Fellowships for Local Investigative Journalism. Designed to strengthen investigative reporting in underserved…

Even though our 2007 Nieman fellowship year ended little more than a decade ago, two of our classmates have since died: Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was murdered in…

October 12-14, 2018

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is pleased to announce the creation of the Harry M. Davis Nieman Fellowship in Science Journalism.The fellowship is funded by a gift…

In Florida, Miami Herald reporters Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch documented widespread brutality and abuse within the state’s juvenile justice system. As a direct result of their work, the Florida…

Jacqui BanaszynskiThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is pleased to announce Pulitzer-winning journalist Jacqui Banaszynski as the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the foundation’s online publication that promotes and…

A number of Nieman alumni have begun new jobs in recent months.

During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House on May 3, 2018, the Nieman Foundation honored several investigative journalists and their work by presenting three of the foundation’s annual journalism awards:…

The Miami Herald’s “Fight Club” series, which exposed disturbing problems and abuse within Florida’s juvenile justice system, is winner of the 2017 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.Reported by Carol…

Sam Zagoria, a 1955 Nieman Fellow and former Washington Post ombudsman, died at his home in San Francisco on April 2 after suffering kidney failure. He was 98.A political reporter…