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1985 Louis Lyons Award

Awards May 28, 1985

The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University announced May 28, 1985 that Allister Sparks, correspondent for the London Observer and The Washington Post, won the 1985 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism for his courageous reporting from … Read more

1984 Louis Lyons Award

Awards May 24, 1984

The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University announced that the 1984 Louis M. Lyons Award for “conscience and integrity in journalism” was presented on May 24, 1984 to Maria Olivia Monckeberg, a journalist for Analisis, an independent Chilean magazine. In the … Read more

1983 Louis Lyons Award

Awards May 6, 1983

The 1983 Nieman Foundation’s Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism was awarded May 6 to Tom Renner, a specialist in organized crime reporting for Newsday. Renner, 54, began reporting on organized crime for Newsday 22 years … Read more

1982 Louis Lyons Award

Awards March 18, 1982

The Nieman Foundation’s Louis M. Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism was awarded March 18, 1982, to Joseph Thloloe, a 40-year-old black South African banned from working as a journalist by the South African government. At the time … Read more

1981 Louis Lyons Award

Awards April 25, 1981

The 1981 Louis M Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism was awarded posthumously April 25, to Joe Alex Morris Jr. (A.B. Harvard ’49), a Los Angeles Times correspondent who was killed in 1979 while covering the Iranian revolution. Read more

1966 Louis Lyons Award

Awards March 24, 1966

Wilson F. Minor, Jackson, Miss., correspondent for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, has been selected as the third recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. The 1966 Class of Nieman Fellows, who made the selection … Read more

1964 Louis Lyons Award

Awards May 4, 1964

American correspondents in Vietnam in 1963 received the first Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, the 1964 Class of Nieman Fellows announced on May 4, 1964. The award was named for the retiring curator of the … Read more