Kalpana Jain is senior education editor at The Conversation US, a nonprofit website that launched last fall to offer news and views from the academic and research community. She works with academics on articles related to research, policy, … Read more
Holly Williams, along with the CBS Evening News team, received the Jack R. Howard Award and $10,000 from the Scripps Howard Foundation for “Holy War,” early coverage of the emergence of ISIS in Syria and Northern Iraq. The … Read more
Alissa Quart’s book of poetry, “Monetized,” was published in March by Miami University Press. Quart’s poetry takes a hard look at the commercialization of American culture. Read more
David Abel of The Boston Globe received the Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling and $10,000 from the Scripps HowardFoundation for “The Richard Family,” a two-part narrative about overcoming physical challenges and living with grief … Read more
When my younger daughter was 6 years old, Bob Maynard came to dinner at our house in Des Moines. We sat for a long time at the table, as old friends do, and when I finally put Nell to bed, … Read more
Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who was a longtime advocate for improving newsroom diversity, died February 24th at her home in West Oakland, California, from complications … Read more
How lucky for Dori J. Maynard that she got to be a Nieman Fellow (1993), just like her father, Robert C. Maynard, had 27 years before. And how lucky for all of us in the U.S. that she followed and … Read more
Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who was a longtime advocate for improving newsroom diversity, died February 24th at her home in West Oakland, California, from … Read more
The staff of The Seattle Times has won a George Polk Award for environmental reporting for their coverage of the Oso, Wash., mudslides. The awards committee highlighted two exemplary articles, both written in part by Ken Armstrong, a 2001 … Read more
Maria Balinska, a 2010 Nieman Fellow, has joined The Conversation US, a news analysis and commentary site. She serves as the site’s managing editor. Read more
