Philip J. Hilts, a 1985 Nieman Fellow, died on April 23, 2022, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, from complications caused by liver disease. He was 74. During his award-winning career, Hilts was a health and science … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. – “Poisoned,” a meticulously researched series by The Tampa Bay Times that revealed dangerous working conditions inside the Gopher Resource lead smelting plant in Tampa, Florida, is the winner of the 2021 Worth Bingham Prize … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. – An unflinching investigation by The Madison County Record into attempts by the Huntsville, Arkansas, school board to cover up sexual assault allegations by junior high school basketball players, is winner of the 2021 Taylor … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. — Author, journalist and human rights activist Jamie Kalven has been selected as winner of the 2022 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Based … Read more
Fellows in the class of 2022 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have chosen Rukhshana Media, an online news agency based in Afghanistan, for the 2022 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and two finalists of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting of the … Read more
Floyd McKay, a 1968 Nieman Fellow who reported extensively on the Pacific Northwest for four decades, died on March 4, 2022, in Bellingham, Washington, at the age of 86. He was a leading journalist at The Oregon Statesman … Read more
Brent Renaud, a gifted documentary filmmaker and photographer and a member of the Nieman class of 2019, was shot and killed in Irpin, Ukraine, a suburb of Kyiv, on March 13, 2022. He was 50 years old. At the … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2022 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize. The Lukas … Read more
Daniel Passent, a 1980 Nieman Fellow, journalist, writer, blogger and podcaster, died on Feb. 14, 2022*, in Poland at the age of 83. A well-known figure in his country, Passent was long associated with the Polish weekly Polityka, where … Read more
