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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

Dimitri Mitropoulos, NF ’99, Assumes Top Job at Ta Nea

Dimitri Mitropoulos took over the helm of the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in May 2014. As executive editor, Mitropoulos manages 120 journalists. He was previously a political commentator with…
March 30, 2015

Joe O’Connor, NF ’05, Takes President Job at WFAE

Joe O’Connor is the new president and general manager of WFAE, a Charlotte, North Carolina NPR news station. O’Connor previously spent eight years as general manager at Rhode Island Public…
March 30, 2015