Nieman Notes

Alma Guillermoprieto a Mexican journalist whose articles have illuminated Latin America for her readers  has been chosen as the 2010 recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She…

As a top CIA public affairs official, Angus Thuermer described himself as the agency’s “spooksman’’ who officially gave “no comment’’ to inquiring reporters. But that didn’t mean Mr. Thuermer, 92,…

Alfredo Corchado, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, has been chosen as the 2010 Elijah Lovejoy Award recipient. The award, established in 1952 at Maine's Colby College, is given annually to a…

Chris Cobler, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, and his staff at the Victoria Advocate in Texas won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation…

"A Violent Response," a documentary by 2010 Global Health Fellow Hopewell Chin'ono, has been nominated for a BANFF World Television Award. The film—a look at Zimbabwe's post-election violence—will be aired…

The World Affairs Council of New Hampshire announced its annual Spring Forum Fundraiser on April 27 at Southern New Hampshire University. This year's topic was “Covering the World”: A Nieman…

Kabral Blay-Amihere, chairman of National Media Commission in Ghana and a 1991 Nieman Fellow, recently published his third book, “Between the Lion and the Elephant: Memoirs of an African Diplomat.”…

A.M. "Mac" Secrest, who as the editor of a small-town newspaper in South Carolina crusaded against Southern resistance to desegregation in the 1950s, has died. He was a 1961 Nieman…

2010 Nieman Fellow Marcela Valdes received the first Annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism by the Center for Fiction in New York City on Saturday, April 17. The award is…

Deborah Amos, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, will receive the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award/Radio Division on April 20 at Washington State University. Following the award presentation, Amos will exchange…