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Alex Jones, NF ’82, To Leave Shorenstein Center

After 15 years of service, Alex Jones will step down from his position as director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy on July 1.In an open letter announcing…
January 14, 2015

Piero Benetazzo, NF ’82, 1936-2015

Piero Benetazzo, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, died January 11, at home in Rome 13 months after he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 78.Benetazzo was the first Italian…
January 12, 2015

Nieman Fellow Authors Book on Queen Isabella

Kirstin Downey, a 2001 Nieman Fellow, has written a biography of Queen Isabella of Castile, an influential and controversial monarch known for presiding over the Inquisition and supporting Christopher Columbus’s…
December 19, 2014

Two Niemans, Nieman Advisor Win duPont Award

Craig Welch, NF ’07, and Michael Kirk, NF ’80, have received Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards. The duPont awards, announced in December, recognize excellence in broadcast, documentary, and digital journalism, with…
December 19, 2014
Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal wins Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2015 have selected prominent Turkish journalist and writer Hasan Cemal as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity…
December 16, 2014

Remembering Thomas Sancton Sr. NF ’42, civil rights crusader at The New Republic

Just one week after mass resignations were submitted at The New Republic, Tom Sancton Jr., the son of 1942 Nieman Fellow Thomas Sancton Jr., writes about his father’s legacy as…
December 12, 2014
New Nieman Fellowship to honor Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

New Nieman Fellowship to honor Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announces a new visual journalism fellowship in honor of Nieman Fellow Anja Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer who was shot and…
December 8, 2014

Laura Poitras and Amy Goodman to Receive I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will receive the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence in February. The two journalists will come to Harvard to speak about…
November 20, 2014
2014 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

2014 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture

New York Times senior photographer and two-time Pulitzer winner Tyler Hicks presented the 34th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov. 6, 2014.…
November 6, 2014
New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks delivers 2014 Morris Lecture

New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks delivers 2014 Morris Lecture

Tyler Hicks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior photographer for The New York Times, delivered the 34th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on…
November 6, 2014