Nieman Notes

Kevin Cullen Among Winners of DART Awards

Kevin Cullen, a 2003 Nieman Fellow, was part of The Boston Globe team that won a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Established in 1995, the annual Dart…

Nieman Fellows examine Latin American journalism

Several Nieman Fellows contributed to the latest issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, published by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The new magazine focuses on…
The Value of the Nieman Experience

The Value of the Nieman Experience

Nieman curator Bob Giles writes about “The Value of the Nieman Fellows’ Experience” in the Spring 2011 issue of Nieman Reports. His comments about the 50th anniversary of the South…

Defending Freedom of the Press

Documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk, NF ’80, who produced 60 Frontline investigations and won two Peabody awards, was selected to receive the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s First…

Ah, To Be a Fellow Again!

Mary C. Curtis, NF ’06, is one of the 24 inaugural social media fellows chosen by the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. Nearly 600 journalists applied for this three-month…

Headliner Awards honor several Nieman alumni

Four Nieman alumni were among the many journalists recognized by the National Press Club's 2011 Headliner Awards: Kevin Cullen (NF ’03), James E. Causey (NF ’08), Stuart Watson (NF ’08),…

AHCJ honors Tony Bartelme

Tony Bartelme, a 2011 Nieman Fellow, was among the winners of the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Bartelme, projects reporter, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, received the…

Bringing Foreign News Home

Maria Balinska, NF ’10, received a $20,000 grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation to launch an online international news service.

Nieman Fellow Philippa Thomas discovers the power of the blog

When BBC journalist and 2011 Nieman Fellow Philippa Thomas wrote recently about a talk given by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley at MIT, little did…

Andrew Sussman, NF ’01, is named executive producer of “The World”

Andrew Sussman assumes the job of executive producer after many years as senior program producer of “The World.”