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Roy Reed, a 1964 Nieman Fellow who covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times, died December 10 in Fayetteville, Arkansas after suffering a stroke. He was 87.Reed…

Simeon Booker, a 1951 Nieman Fellow and a legendary civil rights reporter who headed the Washington bureau for Jet and Ebony magazines for five decades, died in Solomons, Maryland on…

[sidebar style=”right”]To learn more about the Abrams Nieman Fellowship and who should apply, read a Q&A with Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski: “Investigative journalism is tough for local newsroom…

Gerald P. Grant, a 1968 Nieman Fellow and an education editor at The Washington Post before pursuing a career in the sociology of education, died in his Syracuse, New York…

Michael Green, a 1968 Nieman Fellow who served at the helm of South Africa’s Daily News and Sunday Tribune during the height of apartheid, died August 30 in Durban, South…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard today announced the named fellowships for the Nieman class of 2018. These fellowships are supported by foundation grants and endowed funds that provide…

Wayne Woodlief, NF ’66Longtime Boston Herald political columnist and 1966 Nieman Fellow Wayne Woodlief died on Aug. 12 at the age of 82.A graduate of Duke University, he began his…

Richard Dudman, a 1954 Nieman Fellow and longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who, while on assignment in Cambodia, was ambushed by Viet Cong fighters and held in captivity for more…

Cornelia Bowling Carrier, one of the first environmental reporters in the South and a 1976 Nieman Fellow, died April 8 at the age of 78. Her Nieman classmate Peter Behr…

The Nieman Foundation presented the 2016 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism on May 4, 2017. The award went to the Chicago Tribune and reporters Michael J. Berens and Patricia Callahan for their…