Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California after battling cancer. Born in Ecuador, she worked … Read more
Cecilia Alvear Cecilia Alvear, a longtime NBC News journalist, 1989 Nieman Fellow and former Nieman Advisory Board member, has died at her California home after battling breast cancer. A champion … Read more
Zvi Dor-Ner, a longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, died April 6 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer. He was 75. Dor-Ner spent 30 years at WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate, starting as a cameraman … Read more
When news came of Ralph Hancox’s passing, my instinct was to find an old photograph of the Nieman Fellows’ class of 1966. There he was in the first row, towering over the rest of us clustered on … Read more
John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow and a longtime New York Times reporter who covered the civil rights era, died March 17 in Washington, D.C. He was 93. Reporting first for United Press International and then joining the … Read more
Steve Oney, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is the author of a new book, “A Man’s World,” a collection of 20 profiles of such archetypal men as Harrison Ford, Robert Penn Warren, Herschel Walker, and Andrew Breitbart. Read more
T.V. Parasuram, a longtime Washington correspondent for the Press Trust of India and a 1959 Nieman Fellow, died February 14 in Bethesda, Maryland due to an age-related illness. He was 93. Born in Kerala, India in 1923, Parasuram … Read more
Ohio representatives have introduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Simeon Booker, a civil rights icon and 1951 Nieman Fellow, in recognition of his many achievements in the field of journalism. Representatives Tim Ryan, Dave Joyce, … Read more
2007 Nieman Fellow Luwei (Rose) Luqiu, now in the second year of a PhD program in communication at Penn State, has published a scholarly article, “The Reappearance of the Cult of Personality in China.” She enrolled in the … Read more
Selig S. Harrison, a 1955 Nieman Fellow who covered Asia for The Washington Post and later became a preeminent authority on the region, died in Camden, Maine on December 30 due to complications from a blood disorder. He … Read more
