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2016 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

2016 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press, presented the 35th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture on Dec. 1, 2016. Carroll is the top news executive of…
December 1, 2016
2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

The 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards were presented at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on May 10, 2016. The awards honor the best in American nonfiction writing and…
December 1, 2016

Peter Binzen, NF ’62 and longtime Philly journalist, dies at 94

Peter Binzen, a longtime journalist who covered Philadelphia for more than half a century and a 1962 Nieman Fellow, died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 16 from complications of…
November 23, 2016
AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll to deliver Morris Lecture at Harvard

AP executive editor Kathleen Carroll to deliver Morris Lecture at Harvard

Kathleen CarrollKathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press, will deliver the 35th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at…
November 3, 2016

William “Bill” Steif, a longtime journalist and 1953 Nieman Fellow, dies at 93

William “Bill” Steif, a longtime journalist and 1953 Nieman Fellow, died at his home in Blythewood, South Carolina on October 15 from respiratory failure related to dementia. He was 93.Steif…
October 19, 2016
Juan Manuel Santos, a 1988 Nieman Fellow, is awarded 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

Juan Manuel Santos, a 1988 Nieman Fellow, is awarded 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

On Friday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Prize to Santos “for his resolute…
October 7, 2016
Eryn Carlson
Remembering Robert Timberg

Remembering Robert Timberg

Robert Timberg, Marine, reporter, editor, acclaimed author and Nieman Fellow in the class of 1980, died on September 6 in Annapolis, Maryland, of respiratory failure. He was the bravest man I…
September 29, 2016
Judy Nicol Havemann
Remembering Allister Sparks, the South African journalist who found common ground with Southern Nieman Fellows

Remembering Allister Sparks, the South African journalist who found common ground with Southern Nieman Fellows

The struggle between the forces of segregation and civil rights in the South was the big story when the Nieman Fellows came together in September of 1962. The class was…
September 29, 2016
Daniel Berger
Allister Sparks, NF '63 and influential South African journalist, dies at 83

Allister Sparks, NF ’63 and influential South African journalist, dies at 83

Allister SparksAllister Sparks, former editor of South Africa’s Rand Daily Mail and a 1963 Nieman Fellow, died in Johannesburg on September 19. He was 83.Sparks served at the helm of…
September 20, 2016
The Pulitzer Centennial

The Pulitzer Centennial

Power: Accountability and Abuse September 10 – 11, 2016 Watch videos from the weekend The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is honored to have hosted the capstone marquee event…
September 11, 2016