Mary Beth Sheridan has been named deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post, where she has worked as a reporter and editor since 2001. She has covered topics including diplomacy, homeland security and immigration. Prior to her … Read more
Wendell Steavenson’s new book, “Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution” chronicles the experiences of Egyptians grappling with the hope, change and violence associated with protests in Cairo’s Tahir Square. Steavenson, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, spent more than a … Read more
Denise-Marie Ordway has joined Journalist’s Resource as a research reporter and editor. An online project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the site curates scholarly studies and reports. Previously, Ordway covered education for the Orlando Sentinel in Florida … Read more
Karim Ben Khelifa has received a 2015 Doris Duke New Frontier Fellowship from the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, which offers funding for fellows to develop and refine audience engagement for their exploratory projects. Khelifa, a photojournalist, … Read more
Laurie Penny has been named a 2015 Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she will write and speak about digital rights, social justice, technology, and culture. Penny is a contributing editor at New Statesman … Read more
Julius Duscha, a 1956 Nieman Fellow and the first assistant director of Stanford’s journalism fellowship program, passed away in San Francisco on July 2, 2015 at the age of 90. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1924, Duscha began … Read more
Nabil Wakim, a 2015 Nieman Fellow, has been named the new director of editorial innovation at Le Monde. Currently the French newspaper’s digital editor-in-chief, he is scheduled start in the new position this September. Read more
Paige Williams, a 1997 Nieman Fellow, became a staff writer at The New Yorker in June. She had previously contributed to the magazine as a freelancer, covering such varied topics as politics in the suburbs of Detroit, … Read more
Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, Mexico bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, testified before the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on July 29, 2015 during a hearing on threats to press freedom in the Americas. He discussed his … Read more
Jason Grotto, a 2015 Nieman Fellow, received a 2015 Gerald Loeb Award, with his Chicago Tribune colleague Heather Gillers for their series “Borrowing Trouble.” The reports exposed the risky bond deals pursued by Chicago Public Schools, … Read more
