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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

Lisa Stone, NF ’02, Sells Blogging Network

Lisa Stone, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, has sold BlogHer, a women-oriented blogging network she co-founded, to SheKnows, another digital media company targeted at women. Advertising Age reported that a source familiar…
November 5, 2014

Three Niemans Produce Doc on Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer

Lorie Conway, NF ’94, has produced a documentary, “Making the Case, Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law,” about the work of Beatrice Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean lawyer who has taken up the difficult…
October 30, 2014
Vladimir A. Voina, a 1990 Nieman Fellow who wrote for Russian and U.S. publications, dies at 83

Vladimir A. Voina, a 1990 Nieman Fellow who wrote for Russian and U.S. publications, dies at 83

Vladimir A. Voina, a 1990 Nieman Fellow and Russian journalist who wrote for a number of U.S. and Russian publications, died from cancer complications on October 16 in Boston. He…
October 23, 2014
The Robert L. Long Nieman Fellowship for Turkish journalists established at Harvard University

The Robert L. Long Nieman Fellowship for Turkish journalists established at Harvard University

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the New York City-based Turkish Philanthropy Funds (TPF) today announced the launch of the Robert L. Long Nieman Fellowship to support the…
October 23, 2014

Nieman Foundation announces 2014-15 Visiting Fellows

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected six journalists and media executives as Visiting Fellows for the 2014-15 academic year. Each will spend a short period of time…
October 15, 2014

Maggie Koerth-Baker, NF ’15, Selected for Science Writing

Maggie Koerth-Baker’s New York Times Magazine story, “Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!” has been included in the 2014 volume of the Best American Science and Nature…
October 10, 2014