Nieman Notes Former curator Bob Giles, NF ’66, joins GlobalPost as Commentary editor Bob Giles, who retired last summer after 11 years as curator of the Nieman Foundation, has joined the international news site GlobalPost as Commentary editor. He will recruit contributors from… February 9, 2012 Global Health Fellow examines famine relief crisis in Africa In an opinion piece in the New York Times, 2012 Nieman Global Health Reporting Fellow Samuel Loewenberg takes a look at the ongoing problem of delayed response to drought and… November 29, 2011 New York Times columnist Tom Wicker dies Tom Wicker, NF ’58, a political columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, died Nov. 25 at the age of 85 at his home near Rochester, Vermont. November 25, 2011 The Inestimable Value of an Afghan Reporter Waheed Abdul Wafa, NF ’11, was The New York Times’s longest-serving reporter in Afghanistan. Now he has left journalism to become executive director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University. November 8, 2011 Robert Blau joins Pulitzer Prize Board Robert Blau — a managing editor at Bloomberg News noted for his commitment to investigative and narrative journalism — along with historian Steven Hahn, has been elected to the Pulitzer… October 31, 2011 Alex Jones Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, was among 177 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists,… October 21, 2011 Rose Marie Economou, 1946-2011 Rose Economou, and Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Columbia College professor, died Sunday, Oct. 2, at 65. A 1981 Nieman Fellow, Economou worked at the school for two decades after… October 7, 2011 Rutledge wins Barlett & Steele award Raquel Rutledge and her Milwaukee Journal Sentinel colleague Rick Barrett were named Silver Award winners Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the annual Barlett & Steele contest, which honors outstanding investigative reporting… October 4, 2011 Morris receives International Nuremberg Human Rights Award Hollman Morris was the recipient of the 9th presentation of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, which took place on Sunday, Sept. 25. Morris, a 2011 Nieman Fellow, was honored… October 3, 2011 Amupadhi new editor of The Namibian The editorship of The Namibian changed hands when founding Editor Gwen Lister, after 26 years at the helm of the biggest newspaper in the country, passed on the torch to… September 30, 2011 Previous 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 … 52 Next
