The East Coast memorial service for Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, has been scheduled for May 4. It will take place at the Newseum in Washington, … Read more
Derrick Z. Jackson co-authored the book “Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock.” The book, to be published by Yale University Press in April, describes the journey to bring puffins back … Read more
Paul Solman is one of three co-authors of “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits,” published by Simon & Schuster in February. The book helps retirees and those nearing retirement navigate the numerous … Read more
Hasit Shah received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in February for his smartphone app Ketla, which aims to provide Indians with news in a comic book format. The grant will fund six months of work to … Read more
Patricia O’Brien, writing under the pen name “Kate Alcott,” authored a novel “A Touch of Stardust,” which was published by Doubleday in February. The book peeks behind the scenes of the classic movie “Gone with the Wind” and … Read more
Masha Gessen’s “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of orchestrating the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013, will be published by Riverhead in April. Read more
Charles Onyango-Obbo launched a Pan-African news site last May. The site, called Mail & Guardian Africa, seeks to bring a “deeper understanding to Africa’s possibilities and difficulties today … give voice to perspectives that both Afro-optimists and Afro-pessimists don’t want … Read more
Dimitri Mitropoulos took over the helm of the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in May 2014. As executive editor, Mitropoulos manages 120 journalists. He was previously a political commentator with the newspaper. Read more
Joe O’Connor is the new president and general manager of WFAE, a Charlotte, North Carolina NPR news station. O’Connor previously spent eight years as general manager at Rhode Island Public Radio. Read more
Susie Banikarim has been named vice president of content strategy and audience engagement at Vocativ, a media start-up that seeks to tell original stories using the untapped troves of the Deep Web. Banikarim will be in … Read more
