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Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83

Ernest Eugene “Gene” Pell, a 1975 Nieman Fellow and a longtime broadcast journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty during the final years of the Cold War, died at his…
April 10, 2020
Winners and finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Winners and finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and the two finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards. The…
March 18, 2020
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prizes shortlist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Prizes shortlist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2020 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas…
February 25, 2020
Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo receives 2020 Louis M. Lyons Award

Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo receives 2020 Louis M. Lyons Award

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2020 at Harvard University presented the 2020 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) on January 27.…
January 27, 2020
Nieman Foundation announces the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows

Nieman Foundation announces the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected a group of eight media innovators as the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows. The group includes a features writer, an editor/producer,…
January 16, 2020
Under the influence of architecture critic Whitney Gould, NF ’74

Under the influence of architecture critic Whitney Gould, NF ’74

When I arrived at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the summer of 2000, Whitney Gould and I were part of a team that covered the biggest cultural story in our…
December 19, 2019
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Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2020 at Harvard University have selected Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI, the Center for Investigative Journalism) for the 2020 Louis M. Lyons…
December 19, 2019
Whitney Gould, influential architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, dies at 76

Whitney Gould, influential architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, dies at 76

Whitney Gould, a longtime architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, died at her home in Milwaukee in early December. She was 76.1974 Nieman Fellow…
December 16, 2019
Covering Climate Change: A Workshop for Journalists

Covering Climate Change: A Workshop for Journalists

On November 14–16, 2019, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted “Covering Climate Change,” an intensive training workshop for journalists on covering climate change and related issues. Our goal…
November 14, 2019
Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for President Jimmy Carter, dies at 89

Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for President Jimmy Carter, dies at 89

Ray Jenkins, a 1965 Nieman Fellow and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as a special assistant for press affairs under President Jimmy Carter, died from congestive heart failure on…
October 30, 2019