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Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer-winning biographer: 1925-2014

Justin Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his biographies of literary greats Mark Twain and Walt Whitman and muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, died on March 2 in Cambridge,…
February 27, 2014

Remembering Raymond White, class of ’76

Raymond J. White, a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1976, has died in Maryland at the age of 79.
February 26, 2014

Pamela Colloff accepts 2014 Lyons Award

Speaking recently at the Nieman Foundation, Pamela Colloff, winner of the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, offered a confession: “I love reporting. I hate writing.” Why…
February 20, 2014
Daniel Gilbert, Harvard Psychology Professor

Daniel Gilbert, Harvard Psychology Professor

Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert said there is a scientific basis for the advice that mothers give about how to be happy: get married, make money, and have children. The…
February 19, 2014

Edward Walsh, former Washington Post and Oregonian reporter, dies at 71

Edward Walsh, '82, who covered politics for The Washington Post and The Oregonian, died on Feb. 14 at the age of 71.
February 14, 2014
Noah Feldman, Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School

Noah Feldman, Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School

During a talk at Lippmann House, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman addressed the future of China and Egypt as well as the furor over what he wrote about his high…
February 12, 2014

The state of journalism in China

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, Nieman Reports takes an in-depth look at The State of Journalism in China and what a number of reporters are doing to…
February 11, 2014
2014 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

2014 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

The current class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University selected Pamela Colloff, an executive editor at the Texas Monthly, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and…
February 7, 2014
Raj Chetty, Harvard economist

Raj Chetty, Harvard economist

Is the United States a land of opportunity where hard work can lead to success no matter where you start in life? According to Raj Chetty, Bloomberg Professor of Economics…
February 5, 2014

2013 Nieman Fellows receive Knight grants for new projects

Five members of the Nieman class of 2013 have received funding through the Knight Prototype Fund to develop two innovative media projects.
January 23, 2014