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2013 Nieman Fellows receive Knight grants for new projects

Five members of the Nieman class of 2013 have received funding through the Knight Prototype Fund to develop two innovative media projects.

Nieman Foundation announces 2014 Visiting Fellows

The Nieman Foundation has selected five journalists as Visiting Fellows for the 2014 calendar year. Each will spend a short period of time at Harvard University to work on a…

The year in review: the 2013 annual report

The Nieman Foundation’s 2013 annual report summarizes the many activities that kept staff and fellows busy during the past year including Nieman’s 75th anniversary celebration in September, seminars, shoptalks, and…

Investigative reporter Pamela Colloff wins Louis M. Lyons Award

The current class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University has selected Pamela Colloff, an executive editor at the Texas Monthly, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award…
Nieman offers new resources for journalists covering immigration

Nieman offers new resources for journalists covering immigration

With generous support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Nieman Foundation organized a workshop in late October for reporters, editors and new media voices who cover immigration. Designed for those who…

2010 Fellows collaborate on new e-book

2010 Nieman Fellows Jeff Howe and Gary Knight have teamed up to produce “Murder on the Mekong,” a new Atavist e-book that takes a close look at a series of…

Muckraking Goes Global: Nieman’s new e-book

In conjunction with the 2013 Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro, the Nieman Foundation has published a new e-book, Muckraking Goes Global: The Future of Cross-Border Investigative Journalism,…

Nieman celebrates 75 years of fellowship

More than 400 Nieman alumni and affiliates from around the world gathered in Cambridge Sept. 27-29 to celebrate the Nieman Foundation's 75th anniversary. Guests met with leading thinkers from Harvard…

Nieman Foundation and Berkman Center name joint fellows

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have selected two journalists as the 2013-2014 Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation. The fellowship is a collaboration…

A personal look at the perils of covering Mexico’s drug wars

In his new memoir “Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness,” Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, reflects on his life…