Nieman Notes

David Jiménez, NF ’15, has been named editor-in-chief of El Mundo, Spain’s second-largest daily newspaper. A former Asia bureau chief for the paper, he has covered stories from the nuclear…

Lorie Hearn, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, executive director and editor of inewsource, has received a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for her work on the multimedia series “An Impossible Choice.”…

The Seattle Times has won a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for coverage of the Oso, Wash., mudslide. The natural disaster, which occurred last March, killed 43…

The East Coast memorial service for Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, has been scheduled for May 4. It…

Derrick Z. Jackson co-authored the book “Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock.” The book, to be published by Yale University Press in…

Paul Solman is one of three co-authors of “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits,” published by Simon & Schuster in February. The book helps…

Hasit Shah received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in February for his smartphone app Ketla, which aims to provide Indians with news in a comic book format. The…

Patricia O’Brien, writing under the pen name “Kate Alcott,” authored a novel “A Touch of Stardust,” which was published by Doubleday in February. The book peeks behind the scenes of…

Masha Gessen’s “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of orchestrating the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013, will be published…

Charles Onyango-Obbo launched a Pan-African news site last May. The site, called Mail & Guardian Africa, seeks to bring a “deeper understanding to Africa’s possibilities and difficulties today … give voice to…