Nieman Notes

Ludovic Blecher, NF ’13, heads Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund

Ludovic Blecher, NF ’13, is now manager of Google’s Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund in France. The bold new €150 million ($166 million) initiative is open to anyone involved in…
October 27, 2015

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, NF ’15, launches Cuban website to track natural disasters

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, Nieman’s first Cuban Fellow and a member of the class of 2015, has launched Periodismo de Barrio a new website that focuses on the impact of natural disasters…
October 27, 2015

Miguel Paz, NF ’15, appointed lecturer at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism

Investigative journalist and digital media strategist Miguel Paz, a 2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellow, has joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York as a distinguished lecturer specializing in data…
October 27, 2015

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, to direct business development at ProPublica

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, has been appointed director of business development at ProPublica. In this newly created position, she will work to enhance the organization’s effectiveness and sustainability, lead efforts…
October 27, 2015

Ines Pohl, NF ’05, leaving Die Tageszeitung

Ines Pohl has joined Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C., and will begin her new job in November. A 2005 Nieman Fellow, she has served as…
September 11, 2015

Book by Danny Schechter, NF ’78, to be published posthumously

Danny Schechter, a television producer, media critic, anti-apartheid activist and 1978 Nieman Fellow, completed his final book, “Surveillance A to Z,” before he died in March 2015.Seven Stories Press will publish…
September 11, 2015

Mary Beth Sheridan, NF ’13, named deputy foreign editor at Washington Post

Mary Beth Sheridan has been named deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post, where she has worked as a reporter and editor since 2001. She has covered topics including diplomacy,…
September 11, 2015

Wendell Steavenson, NF ’14, pens new book on Egyptian Revolution

Wendell Steavenson’s new book, “Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution” chronicles the experiences of Egyptians grappling with the hope, change and violence associated with protests in Cairo’s Tahir Square.…
September 11, 2015

Denise-Marie Ordway, NF ’15, joins Journalist’s Resource

Denise-Marie Ordway has joined Journalist’s Resource as a research reporter and editor. An online project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the site curates scholarly studies and reports.Previously, Ordway covered…
September 11, 2015

Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, receives Doris Duke New Frontier Fellowship

Karim Ben Khelifa has received a 2015 Doris Duke New Frontier Fellowship from the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, which offers funding for fellows to develop and refine audience…
September 4, 2015