David Jackson, a 2009 Nieman Fellow and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was chosen as a recipient of the 2009 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Presented annually, the awards honor outstanding media professionals for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago's diverse communities. Read more
Alabama writer, prize-winning journalist, and 1973 Nieman Fellow Wayne Greenhaw delivered Auburn University's Neil and Henrietta Davis Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 25, 2009. Read more
Frank Van Riper, a 1979 Nieman Fellow, and his wife and professional partner, Judith Goodman, are “thrilled to report the publication of our latest book, ‘Serenissima: Venice in Winter.’” The book is a hardcover collection of photographs and essays about the Floating City when the tourists have left. Read more
Don Janson, who's long career in journalism included 34 years with The New York Times, died Feb. 1 at the age of 87. By the time he retired he had interviewed nine U.S. presidents and covered many of the most notable events of the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s. Janson was a 1953 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Travel through the heartlands of Sufism with the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis. The exhibition runs Feb. 5 - March 10 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies. Read more
“Forgotten Ellis Island” — a documentary film directed by Lorie Conway, a 1994 Nieman Fellow — will be broadcast nationally on PBS on Feb. 2, at 10 pm ET. Narrated by Elliott Gould, it is the first film to be produced about the lost history of the immigrant hospital that was once located on Ellis Island. Read more
Endy M. Bayuni, a 2004 Nieman Fellow, shares how living in Jakarta, Indonesia, may have helped shape the man who would become the 44th President of the United States. Read more
GlobalPost.com, the news organization started by Charles Sennott, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, went live Jan. 12. The free Web site, supported by ads, went live Monday and will offer regular dispatches for an American audience to supplement coverage from news organizations still covering the world. GlobalPost also will sell stories to papers to run in print or online. Read more
Robert Baskin, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, and her team from WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, received a 2009 duPont-Columbia Award for "Drilling for Dollars: Children’s Dentistry Investigation." In this series, Baskin and her team investigated a chain of dental clinics that exposed small children to unnecessary and painful treatments in a scheme to profit from Medicaid. Read more
