Former Nieman Curator and 1989 Nieman Fellow Bill Kovach received the 2010 W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism from the National Press Foundation on February 16. Read more
Raj Chengappa—a 1991 Nieman Fellow—has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune Group of Publications, based in Chandigarh, India. He will take over on March 16, 2010. Read more
Last week, the Morrocan weekly news magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire—known to be very critical of the government and for its hard-hitting investigative journalism—was closed down by government authorities. Le Journal Hebdomadaire was founded in 1997 by Aboubakr Jamai, a 2007 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Sunday Dare—Nigerian journalist, author, researcher and 2001 Nieman Fellow—recently launched the online news and information Web site Newsbreaksnow.com, which focuses on local, continental and international news delivered in a timely, fresh, accurate, informative and reader-friendly manner. Read more
Marcia Slacum Greene, 57, a tenacious Washington Post editor and reporter whose assignments included politics, housing and social services and who saw journalism as a way to humanize and illuminate the lives of the marginalized and voiceless, died Jan. 4. Greene was a 1991 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Bill Kovach, veteran journalist, editor and author, will be bestowed the 2010 W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism from the National Press Foundation. Read more
Ron Stodghill, a former business journalist with BusinessWeek, Time and The New York Times, has been named a business columnist for the Charlotte Observer. Stodghill is a 2001 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Former longtime Gainesville Times editor Bob Campbell died Sunday, Nov. 8. Campbell—a Navy veteran of World War II and a 1957 Nieman Fellow—worked at The Times from 1971 to 1986, spending the last two years as editorial page editor. He was 88. Read more
Jack Nelson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who first made his name covering the civil rights movement, died Wednesday, Oct. 22. For more than two decades, he ran the Los Angeles Times’ bureau in the capital, propelling it to the heights of post-Watergate journalism and putting what had once been a regional paper on the same plane with other top national news organizations. Nelson—a 1962 Nieman Fellow—was 80. Read more
