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“Pure Cecilia: See a need, address it. Enlist others. Expand the sphere.”

“Pure Cecilia: See a need, address it. Enlist others. Expand the sphere.”

Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California…
April 27, 2017
Presentation of the 2016 Taylor Family Award and 2017 I.F. Stone Medal

Presentation of the 2016 Taylor Family Award and 2017 I.F. Stone Medal

The Nieman Foundation presented the 2016 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism and the 2017 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence on April 26, 2017. The Oregonian/OregonLive won the…
April 26, 2017
Cecilia Alvear, diversity advocate and NF '89, has died

Cecilia Alvear, diversity advocate and NF ’89, has died

Cecilia AlvearCecilia Alvear, a longtime NBC News journalist, 1989 Nieman Fellow and former Nieman Advisory Board member, has died at her California home after battling breast cancer.A champion for newsroom diversity, Alvear was…
April 22, 2017
Journalist and author Victor S. Navasky to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Journalist and author Victor S. Navasky to receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Victor S. NavaskyIn recognition of a career dedicated to journalistic integrity and for his work speaking truth to power beyond the confines of mainstream media, journalist Victor S. Navasky has…
April 13, 2017
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