The coronavirus pandemic and the movement for racial justice present American society—and American newsrooms—with urgent challenges and opportunities for change. In response, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is dedicating its next round of Visiting Fellowships to journalism … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. – In a period of unprecedented challenges for journalism, Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation has selected an innovative and distinguished group of journalists for its 2020-21 fellowship class and has created new visiting fellowships to … Read more
Two journalists at Nieman Lab, the Nieman Foundation’s publication covering digital innovation and change in journalism, are moving into new roles beginning on July 1, 2020. Deputy editor Laura Hazard Owen will become editor, overseeing day-to-day operations and strategic … Read more
In Nieman Storyboard, award-winning journalist and author Walt Harrington remembers his friend and mentor Ed Lambeth, a 1968 Nieman Fellow, who died on May 2, 2020. Lambeth was a Washington, D.C. correspondent for Gannett News Service and created the Washington … Read more
H. Brandt “Brandy” Ayers, a longtime Alabama newspaper executive and a 1968 Nieman Fellow, died on May 3. He was 85. From the mid-1960s until 2016, Ayers was publisher of The Anniston Star, a newspaper noted for its liberal … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. — Pioneering journalist and multimedia entrepreneur Maria Hinojosa has been selected as winner of the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. During her 30-year … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. — Reporter Pamela Colloff’s investigation of the dangers of relying on jailhouse informants, “He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a Man to His Death,” is winner … Read more
Cambridge, Mass. — “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service,” a joint investigation by The Wall Street Journal and PBS’s “Frontline,” is the winner of the 2019 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The reporting exposed decades … Read more
News announcement from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An entry deemed to have unrivaled breadth and depth — with print and online elements and combining analysis and commentary — was selected … Read more
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 home near Syria, Virginia, on April 7 after a 3-year … Read more
