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Work of photojournalist Eli Reed, NF ’83, showcased in new book

Photojournalist Eli Reed’s work is featured in “Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home,” published by University of Texas Press in May. The book includes more than 250 images from the…
May 19, 2015

Anita Harris, NF ’82, pens memoir about college years

Anita Harris’s memoir, “Ithaca Diaries: Coming of Age in the 1960s,” was has been published by Cambridge Common Press. Based on the Cornell University graduate’s diaries, letters and first-hand accounts,…
May 19, 2015

Sandy Tolan writes book on healing power of music

Sandy Tolan, NF ’93, has written a new book, “Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land.” Released by Bloomsbury in April, the nonfiction book follows…
May 19, 2015

Brent Walth, NF ’06, joins University of Oregon as journalism professor

Brent Walth has left his post as managing editor of the Willamette Week to become a journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Oregon. Walth, NF ’06, began…
May 19, 2015

David Jiménez, NF ’15, named editor-in-chief of Spain’s El Mundo

David Jiménez, NF ’15, has been named editor-in-chief of El Mundo, Spain’s second-largest daily newspaper. A former Asia bureau chief for the paper, he has covered stories from the nuclear…
May 19, 2015

Lorie Hearn, NF ’95, receives Edward R. Murrow, IRE Awards

Lorie Hearn, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, executive director and editor of inewsource, has received a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for her work on the multimedia series “An Impossible Choice.”…
May 19, 2015
Nieman Foundation announces the 78th class of Nieman Fellows

Nieman Foundation announces the 78th class of Nieman Fellows

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, training newsroom leaders and fostering journalistic innovation for 78 years, has selected 23* journalists as members of the 2016 class of Nieman…
May 15, 2015
Covering Campaigns: A conference for journalists reporting on the 2016 presidential election

Covering Campaigns: A conference for journalists reporting on the 2016 presidential election

On May 8-9, 2015, the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted a joint conference in Chicago for journalists reporting on the 2016…
May 8, 2015
Presentation of the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

Presentation of the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize and Taylor Family Award

The Nieman Foundation presented the 48th annual Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the 14th annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism on May 7, 2015. The Miami Herald won the Bingham…
May 7, 2015

Nieman Web redesign receives award

The Society for News Design has recognized the Nieman Foundation’s Web redesign with an Award of Excellence (small division) in its Best of Digital Design competition. Completed in the summer…
April 28, 2015