Nieman Notes

Mark Chavunduka, Zimbabwe Journalist and 2000 Nieman Fellow, Dies Following Long Illness

Mark Chavunduka, a reporter and editor whose struggle for editorial independence became a rallying point for journalists in Zimbabwe and sub-Saharan Africa, died on Nov. 11, 2002.

Ignacio Gomez Named Nieman Fellow

Ignacio Gomez, a Colombian journalist who fled to the United States last month under death threats in his own country, will spend part of his time in exile as a…

Apartheid Foe Gets Passport And Is Expected to Meet Bush

Over the last 25 years, Albertina Sisulu, a 1985 Nieman Fellow and a bold articulator of black majority rule in South Africa, has been placed under house arrest, circumscribed by…