H. Brandt “Brandy” Ayers, a longtime Alabama newspaper executive and a 1968 Nieman Fellow, died on May 3. He was 85. From the mid-1960s until 2016, Ayers was publisher of The Anniston Star, a newspaper noted for its liberal … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. — “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service,” a joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal and PBS’s “Frontline,” is the winner of the 2019 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The reporting exposed decades … Read more
News announcement from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An entry deemed to have unrivaled breadth and depth — with print and online elements and combining analysis and commentary — was selected … Read more
Ernest Eugene “Gene” Pell, a 1975 Nieman Fellow and a longtime broadcast journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the final years of the Cold War, died at his home near Syria, Virginia, on April 7 after a 3-year … Read more
When I arrived at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the summer of 2000, Whitney Gould and I were part of a team that covered the biggest cultural story in our community at the time, an audacious art museum being built … Read more
Whitney Gould, a longtime architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, died at her home in Milwaukee in early December. She was 76. Read more
Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as a special assistant for press affairs under President Jimmy Carter, died from congestive heart failure on October 24, 2019. He was 89. Read more
Kathryn Johnson, a trailblazing civil rights reporter for The Associated Press and a 1977 Nieman Fellow, died in Atlanta on October 23. She was 93. Read more
Mitchel R. Levitas, a longtime leading editor for The New York Times and a 1959 Nieman Fellow, died June 22 in New Marlborough, Massachusetts from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia. He was 89. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, home to internationally recognized journalism fellowships, programs and publications, has selected 27 Nieman Fellows for the class of 2020. The group includes local reporters, foreign correspondents, editors, a photographer, a bureau chief, … Read more