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The Charlotte Observer has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for its coverage of health and safety violations in the poultry industry. The paper’s series “The Cruelest…

Ellen Fitzpatrick, an American Historian/Scholar and commentator on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, was among several esteemed journalists invited to address the attendees of our 70th Anniversary Convocation Weekend, Nov.…

The Nieman Foundation's newest Web publication — the Nieman Journalism Lab — launched Monday, Oct. 27 under the direction of Joshua Benton. A

A panel of top journalists tries to derive some lessons from the elite media's failure to challenge what turned out to be a specious argument for war in Iraq.

Carolyn Curiel, a former White House speechwriter, U.S. ambassador and most recently a member of The New York Times editorial board, has been appointed as senior adviser in the office…

Nancy Hicks Maynard, 61, a former co-publisher of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune and co-founder of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, died Sept. 21.

Anne Hull, a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who reported the story that exposed the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal in 2007 and has spent her…

The Nieman Foundation has selected Russian journalist Fatima Tlisova as a member of the Nieman Class of 2009.

The Nieman Foundation has appointed Joshua Benton editor of its new Digital Journalism Project.

The Nieman Foundation has named 28 journalists from the United States and abroad to the 71st class of Nieman Fellows.