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Richard Dudman, longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and a 1954 Nieman Fellow, dies at 99

Richard Dudman, longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter and a 1954 Nieman Fellow, dies at 99

Richard Dudman, a 1954 Nieman Fellow and longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who, while on assignment in Cambodia, was ambushed by Viet Cong fighters and held in captivity for more…

Remembering Cornelia Bowling Carrier, pioneering environmental reporter and 1976 Nieman Fellow

Cornelia Bowling Carrier, one of the first environmental reporters in the South and a 1976 Nieman Fellow, died April 8 at the age of 78. Her Nieman classmate Peter Behr…
Diplomatic Relations

Diplomatic Relations

Zvi Dor-Ner, a 1977 Nieman Fellow and a longtime WGBH executive producer, died in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer on April 6. He was 75.Dor-Ner spent three decades at WGBH,…

Remembering Cecilia Alvear: “You have to give back”

Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California…
“Pure Cecilia: See a need, address it. Enlist others. Expand the sphere.”

“Pure Cecilia: See a need, address it. Enlist others. Expand the sphere.”

Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California…
Presentation of the 2016 Taylor Family Award and 2017 I.F. Stone Medal

Presentation of the 2016 Taylor Family Award and 2017 I.F. Stone Medal

The Nieman Foundation presented the 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism and the 2017 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence on April 26, 2017. The Oregonian/OregonLive won the…
Chicago Tribune's "Suffering in Secret" wins 50th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Chicago Tribune’s “Suffering in Secret” wins 50th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Chicago Tribune’s three-part series “Suffering in Secret,” is winner of the 2016 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The result of a yearlong investigation into the abuse and neglect…
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…
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…
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…