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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

Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, Takes Photography Project to Sundance Institute

Karim Ben Khelifa, a 2013 Nieman Fellow, will take part in the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, a week of development workshops, in late October. The institute selected Khelifa for his…
October 10, 2014

Nieman Fellow’s Book To Become an HBO Miniseries

“Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town,” a book by Beth Macy, a 2010 Nieman Fellow, will be adapted for the small screen…
October 10, 2014

Rick Bragg, NF ’93, Profiles Music Legend Jerry Lee Lewis in New Book

Rick Bragg, a 1993 Nieman Fellow, has written a biography of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, titled “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,” that will be…
October 8, 2014

Fannie Flono, NF ’99, Retires from Charlotte Observer

Fannie Flono, a 1999 Nieman Fellow, has retired from The Charlotte Observer after a distinguished 30-year career at the paper. Her time there included positions in both the news and…
October 7, 2014