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Holly Williams, NF ’08, and CBS Staff Wins Jack R. Howard Award

Holly Williams, along with the CBS Evening News team, received the Jack R. Howard Award and $10,000 from the Scripps Howard Foundation for “Holy War,” early coverage of the emergence…
March 30, 2015

Alissa Quart, NF ’10, Authors Book of Poetry

Alissa Quart’s book of poetry, “Monetized,” was published in March by Miami University Press. Quart’s poetry takes a hard look at the commercialization of American culture.
March 30, 2015

David Abel, NF ’13, Wins Ernie Pyle Award

David Abel of The Boston Globe received the Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling and $10,000 from the Scripps HowardFoundation for “The Richard Family,” a two-part narrative about overcoming…
March 30, 2015

Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships: New program at Harvard University will advance journalism innovation

To help news innovators advance quality journalism by incorporating new practices and technology into their work, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced $223,000 in support to…
March 25, 2015
Author, filmmaker Danny Schechter, NF’ 78, dies at age 72

Author, filmmaker Danny Schechter, NF’ 78, dies at age 72

Journalist Danny Schechter, a 1978 Nieman Fellow who chronicled the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, advocated for human rights and other causes, and spoke out often about the need for…
March 20, 2015
Hasan Cemal and Turkish journalists honored at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation

Hasan Cemal and Turkish journalists honored at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation

Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal received the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism on March 12, 2015 at Harvard University. Nieman Fellows in the class of 2015 chose Cemal…
March 12, 2015
Dori Maynard 'saw the possibility of change in almost everyone'

Dori Maynard ‘saw the possibility of change in almost everyone’

When my younger daughter was 6 years old, Bob Maynard came to dinner at our house in Des Moines. We sat for a long time at the table, as old…
March 4, 2015
Geneva Overholser
Dori J. Maynard Believed 'Journalism and Life Demand All Voices'

Dori J. Maynard Believed ‘Journalism and Life Demand All Voices’

Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who was a longtime advocate for improving newsroom diversity, died February 24th…
February 26, 2015
Mary C. Curtis

Dori Maynard helped ‘to make race and diversity a greater part of the national dialogue’

How lucky for Dori J. Maynard that she got to be a Nieman Fellow (1993), just like her father, Robert C. Maynard, had 27 years before. And how lucky for…
February 25, 2015
Frank O. Sotomayor
Dori J. Maynard, NF '93, dies

Dori J. Maynard, NF ’93, dies

Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education who was a longtime advocate for improving newsroom diversity, died February 24th…
February 25, 2015