Peter Binzen, a 1962 Nieman Fellow who covered Philadelphia for more than half a century, died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 16 from complications of a stroke. He was 94. Binzen spent more than 30 years as … Read more
John Painter Jr., a longtime Oregonian reporter and a 1977 Nieman Fellow, died on November 18 from complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Painter spent nearly four decades at The Oregonian, where he covered everything from Bruce … Read more
Peter Binzen, a longtime journalist who covered Philadelphia for more than half a century and a 1962 Nieman Fellow, died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 16 from complications of a stroke. He was 94. Binzen spent more … Read more
William “Bill” Steif, a longtime journalist and 1953 Nieman Fellow, died at his home in Blythewood, South Carolina on October 15 from respiratory failure related to dementia. He was 93. Steif spent most of his career at Scripps-Howard … Read more
On Friday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Prize to Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring the … Read more
Robert Timberg, Marine, reporter, editor, acclaimed author and Nieman Fellow in the class of 1980, died on September 6 in Annapolis, Maryland, of respiratory failure. He was the bravest man I ever met. Shockingly disfigured by a land mine … Read more
Allister Sparks Allister Sparks, former editor of South Africa’s Rand Daily Mail and a 1963 Nieman Fellow, died in Johannesburg on September 19. He was 83. Sparks served … Read more
Derrick Z. Jackson, NF ’84, has been named a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School for Fall 2016. The Shorenstein fellowship program invites four individuals to spend an academic semester at Harvard doing research in the field of … Read more
Yossi Melman, NF ’90, is among the Israeli and U.S. officials and experts featured in the cybercrime documentary “Zero Days,” which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and is slated for limited release in the … Read more
Grzegorz Piechota, NF ’16, is the recipient of the Silver Shovel Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and contributions to the International News Media Association. Piechota, a former news editor of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, recently published the INMA report … Read more
