Nieman Journalism Lab, a Harvard University-based digital publication exploring the future of news, is expanding its staff to offer robust coverage of local news and generative AI, two issues of growing significance to public knowledge. The Lab … Read more
Paul Carvalho, an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker and a 1995 Nieman Fellow, died on August 17, 2023, at his home in Montreal, Canada, after a long illness. He was 72. Carvalho started making films in 1996 … Read more
Diana Marcum, a 2018 Nieman Fellow and former Los Angeles Times reporter, died on August, 9, 2023, in Fresno, California, following surgery to remove a glioblastoma several weeks earlier. She was 60 years old. Read more
Robert H. Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University from 2000-2011, died in Traverse City, Michigan, on August 7, 2023, after battling cancer. Known as Bob to friends and colleagues alike, he … Read more
Jerome Aumente, a 1968 Nieman Fellow, died on February 13, 2023, after a long illness. He was a distinguished professor emeritus in the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University in New … Read more
Hodding Carter III, a journalist who began his career at his family’s newspaper in Greenville, Mississippi, later served in the State Department under Jimmy Carter and worked as an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, died on May … Read more
Mike Pride, whose love of language, gift for leadership and devotion to journalism lifted the Concord Monitor to national prominence during his quarter century as editor, died on Monday, April 24, 2023. Pride, 76, succumbed to a … Read more
Journalist Dong Yuyu, a veteran editor and columnist at the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, is facing espionage charges in Beijing. He was a member of the 2007 class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Read more
Jerrold L. Schecter, a 1964 Nieman Fellow who reported from Asia, the Soviet Union and the White House for Time magazine and wrote for several other publications, died at his home in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, … Read more
Bruce Locklin, a 1978 Nieman Fellow, died in Cranbury, New Jersey, on Oct. 24, 2022, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. In 1973, Locklin became one of the nation’s first full-time investigative … Read more
