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
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the sexual-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and the team's outstanding effort to examine charges and accusations from all sides and sources is the winner of the second annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University, who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the Taylor family, carries a $10,000 prize. Read more
The Committee to Protect Journalists has been selected by Harvard University's Nieman Fellows to receive the 2002 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
Annys Shin, a senior writer for the Washington City Paper, has been awarded the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship for in-depth reporting to cover the impact of the release of floods of prisoners just now finishing their mandatory sentences. Read more
Four Harvard College sophomores will investigate the status of women at Harvard University through fellowships awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. The four women are all members of The Harvard Crimson staff. Read more
