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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…
May 1, 2017
Anita Snow
“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…
April 27, 2017
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…
April 26, 2017
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…
April 7, 2017
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