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Lew Clapp, Nieman Technology Advisor, Dies

Lewis C. Clapp, a pioneer in computer technology, died Saturday night, December 26, in Boca Raton Community Hospital in Florida after an operation for a ruptured appendix. He was 61…
December 30, 1999

Harvard University Invites Applications and Nominations for Position of Curator of Nieman Foundation for Journalism

A letter from Neil L. Rudenstine, asking for help in seeking a successor to Bill Kovach.
November 19, 1999

Nieman Fellows Protest Arrest and Torture of Two Zimbawbe Journalists

"We want to express our extreme dismay and disappointment over the unlawful detention, torture and pending trial of Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto of The Standard, a weekly newspaper based…
October 1, 1999

Kovach Resigns as Nieman Curator

Kovach letter to Nieman Community
September 30, 1999

Nieman Foundation Announces International Fellows for 1999-2000

Twelve international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 1999-00 academic year at Harvard University. They will join twelve American journalists whose names were announced earlier in May to…
May 25, 1999

Nieman Foundation Announces U.S. Fellows for 1999-2000

Twelve American journalists have been appointed to the 62nd class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. They will be joined by approximately twelve international journalists to be named later this…
May 4, 1999

1997 Louis Lyons Award

Goenawan Mohamad, founder and editor of Tempo magazine in Jakarta, Indonesia, was selected by the Nieman Fellows to receive the 1997 Louis Lyons award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.The…
March 25, 1997

1996 Louis Lyons Award

Raymond T. Bonner of The New York Times was awarded the 1996 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.In naming Bonner, who is a correspondent based in…
March 25, 1996

1995 Louis Lyons Award

The Nieman Foundation presented the 1995 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to Olatunji Dare, former editorial chairman for the Guardian Group of Newspapers in Lagos,…
March 25, 1995

1994 Louis Lyons Award

The Nieman class of 1994 honored Abdelhamid Benzine, editor of the independent daily newspaper Alger Republicain in Algeria, with the Lyons Award. Mr. Benzine has been fighting for a free…
March 25, 1994