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The Oregonian/OregonLive's "Toxic Armories" wins 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism

The Oregonian/OregonLive’s “Toxic Armories” wins 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism

The Oregonian/OregonLive’s “Toxic Armories” is winner of the 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. The series is the result of an extensive 18-month investigation during which reporter Rob…
April 5, 2017
A small-town editor with a “deep and informed appreciation of the arts”

A small-town editor with a “deep and informed appreciation of the arts”

When news came of Ralph Hancox’s passing, my instinct was to find an old photograph of the Nieman Fellows’ class of 1966. There he was in the first row, towering over…
April 3, 2017
Remembering Allister Sparks, the South African journalist who found common ground with Southern Nieman Fellows

Remembering Allister Sparks, the South African journalist who found common ground with Southern Nieman Fellows

The struggle between the forces of segregation and civil rights in the South was the big story when the Nieman Fellows came together in September of 1962. The class was…
September 29, 2016
Daniel Berger

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, wins 2016 Mirror Award

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, is the recipient of a 2016 Mirror Award for her article “Automation in the Newsroom,” which appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Nieman Reports. The…
June 9, 2016
Journalist Kari Howard joins Nieman Storyboard as editor

Journalist Kari Howard joins Nieman Storyboard as editor

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has named Kari Howard as the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the foundation’s online publication that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores the…
May 26, 2016
Presentation of the 2015 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

Presentation of the 2015 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

The Nieman Foundation presented the 49th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the 14th annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism on May 4, 2016.  The Tampa Bay Times won the…
May 4, 2016
Nieman Fellows Win 2016 Pulitzer Prizes

Nieman Fellows Win 2016 Pulitzer Prizes

Nieman Fellows are among the winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes awarded on April 18, 2016.Associated Press reporter Margie Mason, a 2009 Nieman, and her colleagues Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza…
April 18, 2016
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
“Failure Factories” by Tampa Bay Times wins 2015 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

“Failure Factories” by Tampa Bay Times wins 2015 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

For disclosing in careful detail and through fresh, original storytelling how district leaders in Florida’s Pinellas County transformed five elementary schools into some of the worst in the state through…
March 25, 2016
Acel Moore, NF '80, champion of newsroom diversity, dies at 75

Acel Moore, NF ’80, champion of newsroom diversity, dies at 75

Acel Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a champion of newsroom diversity, and a 1980 Nieman Fellow, died at his home on February 12 at the age of 75.Over a career…
February 16, 2016