Alma Guillermoprieto a Mexican journalist whose articles have illuminated Latin America for her readers has been chosen as the 2010 recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a 2005 Nieman Fellow. Read more
As a top CIA public affairs official, Angus Thuermer described himself as the agency’s “spooksman’’ who officially gave “no comment’’ to inquiring reporters. But that didn’t mean Mr. Thuermer, 92, who died of pneumonia April 14, lacked for stories to tell. Just out of college in the late 1930s, he covered the eve of World War II from Berlin for the Associated Press before being interned by the Germans. He was a 1951 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Alfredo Corchado, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, has been chosen as the 2010 Elijah Lovejoy Award recipient. The award, established in 1952 at Maine's Colby College, is given annually to a member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic achievement. Read more
Chris Cobler, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, and his staff at the Victoria Advocate in Texas won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in Non-Deadline Reporting (Daily Circulation 1-50,000) for the series on “Fatal Funnel”, a story of Route 77 in Texas, notorious as a passageway for drugs and illegal immigrants. Read more
"A Violent Response," a documentary by 2010 Global Health Fellow Hopewell Chin'ono, has been nominated for a BANFF World Television Award. The film—a look at Zimbabwe's post-election violence—will be aired in June on the BBC in the UK to mark the anniversary of the 2008 Zimbabwean elections. Read more
The World Affairs Council of New Hampshire announced its annual Spring Forum Fundraiser on April 27 at Southern New Hampshire University. This year's topic was “Covering the World”: A Nieman Fellows Panel Discussion on the Future of International Journalism . Read more
Kabral Blay-Amihere, chairman of National Media Commission in Ghana and a 1991 Nieman Fellow, recently published his third book, “Between the Lion and the Elephant: Memoirs of an African Diplomat.” The chronicles the achievements, challenges and experiences of the author as Ghana’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire. Read more
A.M. "Mac" Secrest, who as the editor of a small-town newspaper in South Carolina crusaded against Southern resistance to desegregation in the 1950s, has died. He was a 1961 Nieman Fellow. Read more
2010 Nieman Fellow Marcela Valdes received the first Annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism by the Center for Fiction in New York City on Saturday, April 17. The award is devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics. Read more
Deborah Amos, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, will receive the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award/Radio Division on April 20 at Washington State University. Following the award presentation, Amos will exchange views about media ethics and responsibility in a roundtable discussion. Read more
