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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

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…
April 2, 2015

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.…
April 1, 2015

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…
March 30, 2015

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…
March 30, 2015

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…
March 30, 2015

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…
March 30, 2015

Patricia O’Brien, NF ’74, Pens Novel

Patricia O’Brien, writing under the pen name “Kate Alcott,” authored a novel “A Touch of Stardust,” which was published by Doubleday in February. The book peeks behind the scenes of…
March 30, 2015

Masha Gessen, NF ’04, Authors Book on Tsarnaev Brothers

Masha Gessen’s “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of orchestrating the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013, will be published…
March 30, 2015

Charles Onyango-Obbo, NF ’92, Launches News Site

Charles Onyango-Obbo launched a Pan-African news site last May. The site, called Mail & Guardian Africa, seeks to bring a “deeper understanding to Africa’s possibilities and difficulties today … give voice to…
March 30, 2015