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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

Niemans’ Work Wins Pulitzer

The Seattle Times has won a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for coverage of the Oso, Wash., mudslide. The natural disaster, which occurred last March, killed 43…
April 20, 2015

David Skok, NF ’12, Named Boston Globe’s Managing Editor for Digital

David Skok, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has been appointed The Boston Globe’s managing editor for digital. Skok was previously the Globe’s digital advisor. This new job comes with other responsibilities–Skok…
April 15, 2015

Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras”

The Chicago Tribune has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2014 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras” a comprehensive series that exposed the corruption and mismanagement of…
April 7, 2015

UChicago Institute of Politics & Nieman Foundation to Co-Host Campaign Journalism Conference

The University of Chicago Institute of Politics and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce a joint conference for journalists reporting on the 2016 presidential election.…
April 3, 2015