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Dina Kraft, NF ’12, Named Dart Center Fellow

Dina Kraft, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, received an Ochberg Fellowship at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. She is the associate program coordinator of the Media…

Book by David Jiménez, NF ’15, Translated into English

David Jiménez’s “Children of the Monsoon,” translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg, has been published by Autumn Hill Books. This collection of his literary journalism draws on his years of…

Documentary by Alison MacAdam, NF’ 14, Wins Award

Alison MacAdam, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, was one of three editors of “Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story,” which received a best documentary award in the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. “Melissa’s…

William Woestendiek, NF ’55, Dies

William Woestendiek, a 1955 Nieman Fellow, died on January 16 at a Mesa, Arizona nursing facility. His death came after a long illness. He was 90 years old.He got his start in…

Zhao Jinglun, NF ’81, Dies

Zhao Jinglun, a 1981 Nieman Fellow, died on January 24, 2015. He was 90.Jinglun, the first Nieman Fellow from mainland China, was a columnist for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and The China…
2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Filmmaker Laura Poitras was the recipient of the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, awarded each year by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Amy Goodman, host and executive…

George Rodrigue, NF ’90, Named Editor of Cleveland Plain Dealer

George Rodrigue, a 1990 Nieman Fellow, is the new editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.Rodrigue previously served as the assistant news director at Dallas’s WFAA and as managing…

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…

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…

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…