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Zvi Dor-Ner, longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, dies at 75

Zvi Dor-Ner, longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, dies at 75

Zvi Dor-Ner, a longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, died April 6 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer. He was 75.Dor-Ner spent 30 years at WGBH,…
April 12, 2017
Chicago Tribune's "Suffering in Secret" wins 50th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Chicago Tribune’s “Suffering in Secret” wins 50th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Chicago Tribune’s three-part series “Suffering in Secret,” is winner of the 2016 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The result of a yearlong investigation into the abuse and neglect…
April 7, 2017
The Oregonian/OregonLive's "Toxic Armories" wins 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism

The Oregonian/OregonLive’s “Toxic Armories” wins 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism

The Oregonian/OregonLive’s “Toxic Armories” is winner of the 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. The series is the result of an extensive 18-month investigation during which reporter Rob…
April 5, 2017
A small-town editor with a “deep and informed appreciation of the arts”

A small-town editor with a “deep and informed appreciation of the arts”

When news came of Ralph Hancox’s passing, my instinct was to find an old photograph of the Nieman Fellows’ class of 1966. There he was in the first row, towering over…
April 3, 2017
Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder named winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Gary Younge, Christopher Leonard and Tyler Anbinder named winners of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the three winners and the three finalists of the 2017 Lukas Prize Project Awards. The…
March 27, 2017
John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow who covered the civil rights era for The New York Times, dies at 93

John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow who covered the civil rights era for The New York Times, dies at 93

John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow and a longtime New York Times reporter who covered the civil rights era, died March 17 in Washington, D.C. He was 93.Reporting first for…
March 20, 2017
Covering Housing: A Workshop for Journalists

Covering Housing: A Workshop for Journalists

March 16-18, 2017, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted an intensive training workshop for journalists on covering housing and related issues. Our goal was to bring together a diverse…
March 16, 2017

Steve Oney, NF ’82, pens “A Man’s World,” a collection of profiles from throughout his career

Steve Oney, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is the author of a new book, “A Man’s World,” a collection of 20 profiles of such archetypal men as Harrison Ford, Robert Penn…
March 13, 2017
MisinfoCon: A Summit and Creative Studio on Misinformation

MisinfoCon: A Summit and Creative Studio on Misinformation

The Nieman Foundation kicked off the MisinfoCon conference on Feb. 24, 2017, with a series of lightning talks exploring the psychology of misinformation and strategies to strengthen the trustworthiness of information across…
February 27, 2017
Announcing the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist

Announcing the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the 2017 Shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards - the J. Anthony…
February 21, 2017