The 2005 Class of Nieman Fellows has selected Shahla Sherkat, founder and publisher of the Iranian women's magazine Zanan, to receive the 2005 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
"Last Chance High," a series by The Star-Ledger of Newark about an alternative school for teenagers with serious behavioral problems, has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, is the 24th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Read more
A report by The Blade of Toledo that uncovered Vietnam-era war crimes kept secret for three and a half decades has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
Zhanna Litvina, a pioneering radio journalist in Belarus, has been selected by the sitting class of Nieman Fellows to receive the 2004 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
Michael M. Grynbaum and Stephen M. Marks will report on Harvard College admissions policies and processes through a fellowship awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Grynbaum covers local and national politics, and Marks covers the university administration as members of The Harvard Crimson staff. Read more
A definitive work on the Vietnam era by David Maraniss, a biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit and an examination of slavery by John Bowe were named the winners of this year's J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Read more
Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, will be the 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more
Mark Chavunduka, the founding editor of The Zimbabwe Standard, has been selected by Harvard University's Nieman Fellows to receive the 2003 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
Nathan Heller, a Harvard College freshman, will investigate the effects of post-Sept. 11 legislation on Harvard University through a fellowship awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Read more
