Richard Dudman, a 1954 Nieman Fellow, was inducted into the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame in October. In his 31 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he covered many wars and revolutions around the world. Read more
Nazila Fathi’s “The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran” was published by Basic Books in December. Fathi was 9 years old in 1979 when a revolution in Iran swept the shah from power. Read more
Jonathan Blakley, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has joined Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Blakley, formerly of NPR, oversees MPR’s news coverage as its program director. Read more
Samuel Loewenberg, whose work focuses on global health, has been named a fellow with the Investigative Journalism Project at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. Read more
Dina Kraft, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, received an Ochberg Fellowship at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. She is the associate program coordinator of the Media Innovation track at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. Read more
David Jiménez’s “Children of the Monsoon,” translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg, has been published by Autumn Hill Books. This collection of his literary journalism draws on his years of reporting about children as the Asia bureau chief for El … Read more
Alison MacAdam, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, was one of three editors of “Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story,” which received a best documentary award in the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. “Melissa’s Story,” about a former teen mother, was produced for … Read more
William Woestendiek, a 1955 Nieman Fellow, died on January 16 at a Mesa, Arizona nursing facility. His death came after a long illness. He was 90 years old. He got his start in journalism as editor of the University … Read more
Zhao Jinglun, a 1981 Nieman Fellow, died on January 24, 2015. He was 90. Jinglun, the first Nieman Fellow from mainland China, was a columnist for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and The China Internet Information Center, a news site sanctioned by … Read more
George Rodrigue, a 1990 Nieman Fellow, is the new editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. Rodrigue previously served as the assistant news director at Dallas’s WFAA and as managing editor at The Dallas Morning News, where … Read more
