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Niemans on Boston Globe team that wins Pulitzer for breaking news coverage

Niemans on Boston Globe team that wins Pulitzer for breaking news coverage

The staff of The Boston Globe, including several Nieman Fellows, has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Reporter David Abel, NF ’13, and…

Sheri Fink, Jill Lepore and Adrienne Berard Are Named Winners of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University today announced the three winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards.Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has won…

Reporting Risks in Afghanistan

During a talk at the Nieman Foundation on April 4, Kim Barker, who covered Afghanistan for the Chicago Tribune, spoke with Afghan journalist Sangar Rahimi, NF ’14, about the challenges…
Remembering AP Photographer Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

Remembering AP Photographer Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

AP photographer and 2007 Nieman Fellow Anja Niedringhaus was shot and killed April 4 by an Afghan police officer while covering the run-up to the elections. In this photo essay…
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…

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…
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…
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…

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…

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.