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Ines Pohl, NF ’05, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Pohl joined Deutsche Welle in 2015 as a foreign correspondent based in Washington, D.C.…

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, is the recipient of a 2016 Mirror Award for her article “Automation in the Newsroom,” which appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Nieman Reports. The…

Sabam Siagian, a 1979 Nieman Fellow and the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post, died in a Jakarta hospital on June 3. He was 84.Sabam, who was the first…

David Lamb, a 1981 Nieman Fellow and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia. Lamb, who had been battling lymphoma and esophageal…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has named Kari Howard as the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the foundation’s online publication that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores the…

William R. Grant, a 1980 Nieman Fellow and an award-winning reporter and television producer, passed away on May 15 of complications from pneumonia. He was 72.Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Grant…

Kate Galbraith, NF ’08, has been honored by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies for her article “New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding their Niche,” which explains why…

Japanese journalist Yoichi Funabashi, NF ’76, the former editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun, has won the 2015 Shorenstein Journalism Award. Presented annually by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at…

The Nieman Foundation presented the 49th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the 14th annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism on May 4, 2016.  The Tampa Bay Times won the…

Gaiutra Bahadur, NF ’08, has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Fellow at the Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.She will…