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Nieman Reports wins EPPY Award for best redesign/relaunch

Nieman Reports wins EPPY Award for best redesign/relaunch

Nieman Reports has won an EPPY Award for the best web redesign/relaunch in the “under 1 million unique monthly visitors” category. Presented annually by Editor & Publisher, the EPPYs honor…
Amy Ellis Nutt's book on transgender identity wins accolades

Amy Ellis Nutt’s book on transgender identity wins accolades

Becoming NicoleAmy Ellis Nutt, NF ’05 , has published a new book: “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” The book tells the story of a transgender girl, her identical…

Raúl Peñaranda, NF ’08, receives Cabot Prize

Bolivian journalist and author Raúl Peñaranda, NF ’08, has received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on the Americas from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.Cited for his…

Ludovic Blecher, NF ’13, heads Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund

Ludovic Blecher, NF ’13, is now manager of Google’s Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund in France. The bold new €150 million ($166 million) initiative is open to anyone involved in…

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, NF ’15, launches Cuban website to track natural disasters

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, Nieman’s first Cuban Fellow and a member of the class of 2015, has launched Periodismo de Barrio a new website that focuses on the impact of natural disasters…

Miguel Paz, NF ’15, appointed lecturer at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism

Investigative journalist and digital media strategist Miguel Paz, a 2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellow, has joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York as a distinguished lecturer specializing in data…

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, to direct business development at ProPublica

Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, has been appointed director of business development at ProPublica. In this newly created position, she will work to enhance the organization’s effectiveness and sustainability, lead efforts…
Robert Parry Receives I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Robert Parry Receives I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Listen to Robert Parry speak with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point Journalist Robert Parry first discovered the work of I.F. Stone in high school, admiring the investigative reporter’s independent…

Ines Pohl, NF ’05, leaving Die Tageszeitung

Ines Pohl has joined Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle as a foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C., and will begin her new job in November. A 2005 Nieman Fellow, she has served as…

Book by Danny Schechter, NF ’78, to be published posthumously

Danny Schechter, a television producer, media critic, anti-apartheid activist and 1978 Nieman Fellow, completed his final book, “Surveillance A to Z,” before he died in March 2015.Seven Stories Press will publish…