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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…

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…

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…

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.…

Jenny Nordberg, Harold Holzer and Dan Egan Win the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

The recipients of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards include groundbreaking reporting on bacha posh, the practice of girls raised as boys in Afghanistan, by Jenny Nordberg; a…

The Miami Herald’s “Innocents Lost” series wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

The Miami Herald’s meticulously researched and reported “Innocents Lost” series, which examines the deaths of hundreds of children in Florida, has won the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.…

Memorial Service for Dori J. Maynard, NF ’93, Planned for May 4

The East Coast memorial service for Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, has been scheduled for May 4. It…

Derrick Z. Jackson, NF ’84, Co-Authors Book on Puffins

Derrick Z. Jackson co-authored the book “Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock.” The book, to be published by Yale University Press in…

Paul Solman, NF ’77, Co-Authors Book

Paul Solman is one of three co-authors of “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits,” published by Simon & Schuster in February. The book helps…

Hasit Shah, NF ’14, Wins Knight Grant

Hasit Shah received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in February for his smartphone app Ketla, which aims to provide Indians with news in a comic book format. The…