News 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 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 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’ 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, 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, 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 Niemans’ Work Wins Polk Award The staff of The Seattle Times has won a George Polk Award for environmental reporting for their coverage of the Oso, Wash., mudslides. The awards committee highlighted two exemplary articles, both… February 20, 2015 The ABC’s of Social Media with Sree Sreenivasan Sree Sreenivasan, the chief digital officer of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, dropped by the Nieman Foundation—while on a family vacation to Boston no less—to share some of his… February 19, 2015 Maria Balinska, NF ’10, Joins The Conversation US Maria Balinska, a 2010 Nieman Fellow, has joined The Conversation US, a news analysis and commentary site. She serves as the site’s managing editor. February 17, 2015 Previous 1 … 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 … 105 Next
