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Susan Crawford, Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property, Harvard Law School

Susan Crawford, Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property, Harvard Law School

For 77 percent of Americans, the only option for high-speed, high-capacity wired Internet access is through their local cable monopoly. As cable broadband providers consolidate, Americans are left in a…
March 26, 2014

The Sacramento Bee’s “Nevada Patient Busing” series wins Bingham Prize

The Sacramento Bee has won the 2013 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for its five-part series Nevada Patient Busing. The Bee’s investigation found that over the course of five…
March 24, 2014
Seminar: “Witness Uganda” creators Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould

Seminar: “Witness Uganda” creators Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould

When he flew to Uganda in 2005, Griffin Matthews was just trying to help some kids at a local orphanage. But he wound up starting his own nonprofit, Uganda Project, to…
March 13, 2014
2013 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

2013 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2013 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for Deadly Delays. The comprehensive watchdog investigation reveals how delays in newborn screening programs at hospitals…
March 12, 2014

Souad Mekhennet, NF ’13, named Young Global Leader

Souad Mekhennet, a 2013 Nieman Fellow, has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Mekhennet is a German journalist, author, and associate at the Weatherhead…
March 11, 2014

Borja Echevarría de la Gándara named VP, Digital at Univision News

Spanish journalist and 2013 Nieman-Berkman Fellow Borja Echevarría de la Gándara has been named VP, Digital at Univision News in Miami.
March 7, 2014

Professor Doug Melton, co-director Harvard University Stem Cell Institute

Professor Doug Melton’s work for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute hasn’t always made him popular. He fought with the Bush administration over federal funding for his research, argued with religious…
March 5, 2014

Latinos: “The Future is Ours”

“Take a hard look,” Jorge Ramos implored his audience, “because you’re looking at a dinosaur.” Ramos wasn’t talking about his 25 years on Univision’s news desk—or about his head of…
March 5, 2014

Reporting on Russia: In Conversation with Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe

From the Olympics in Sochi, to protests in Kiev that ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to the movement of Russian troops in Crimea, Russia has been one of the…
February 28, 2014

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wins Taylor Family Award with “Deadly Delays”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2013 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for Deadly Delays. The comprehensive watchdog investigation reveals how delays in newborn screening…
February 28, 2014