Pakistani journalist Zawwar Hasan, a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1967, died in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2022, after a brief illness. He was 96. During his long career in journalism, Hasan worked … Read more
Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota journalist, newspaper pioneer and 1991 Nieman Fellow, died in Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 24, 2022, at the age of 88. In 1981, Giago founded the Lakota Times (later … Read more
Bernard Edinger, a 1985 Nieman Fellow, died in Paris on June 25, 2022. He was 80 years old and had recently been battling leukemia. A French national, Edinger grew up in the United States in … Read more
Barry Sussman, the Washington Post editor who directed coverage of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, died on June 1, 2022, at his home in Rockville, Maryland. He was 87. Sussman oversaw the … Read more
Philip J. Hilts, a 1985 Nieman Fellow, died on April 23, 2022, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, from complications caused by liver disease. He was 74. During his award-winning career, Hilts was a health and science … Read more
Floyd McKay, a 1968 Nieman Fellow who reported extensively on the Pacific Northwest for four decades, died on March 4, 2022, in Bellingham, Washington, at the age of 86. He was a leading journalist at The Oregon Statesman … Read more
Brent Renaud, a gifted documentary filmmaker and photographer and a member of the Nieman class of 2019, was shot and killed in Irpin, Ukraine, a suburb of Kyiv, on March 13, 2022. He was 50 years old. At the … Read more
Daniel Passent, a 1980 Nieman Fellow, journalist, writer, blogger and podcaster, died on Feb. 14, 2022*, in Poland at the age of 83. A well-known figure in his country, Passent was long associated with the Polish weekly Polityka, where … Read more
“I have been a very lucky guy in so many ways, certainly in my career,” 1964 Nieman Fellow Morton Mintz said recently from his home in Washington, D.C. “I loved being a reporter, starting at The Michigan Daily when I … Read more
Kari Howard, a longtime editor known for her generous spirit and exemplary storytelling skills died on Monday, Jan, 10, at the age of 59 after a long battle with cancer. From 2016 to 2018, she served as editor of … Read more
