Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, who worked for NBC for 25 years and was a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, died April 21 in Santa Monica, California after battling cancer. Born in Ecuador, she worked … Read more
Cecilia Alvear Cecilia Alvear, a longtime NBC News journalist, 1989 Nieman Fellow and former Nieman Advisory Board member, has died at her California home after battling breast cancer. A champion … Read more
Victor S. Navasky In recognition of a career dedicated to journalistic integrity and for his work speaking truth to power beyond the confines of mainstream media, journalist Victor S. Navasky has been … Read more
Zvi Dor-Ner, a longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, died April 6 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer. He was 75. Dor-Ner spent 30 years at WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate, starting as a cameraman … Read more
When news came of Ralph Hancox’s passing, my instinct was to find an old photograph of the Nieman Fellows’ class of 1966. There he was in the first row, towering over the rest of us clustered on … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the three winners and the three finalists of … Read more
John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow and a longtime New York Times reporter who covered the civil rights era, died March 17 in Washington, D.C. He was 93. Reporting first for United Press International and then joining the … Read more
Steve Oney, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is the author of a new book, “A Man’s World,” a collection of 20 profiles of such archetypal men as Harrison Ford, Robert Penn Warren, Herschel Walker, and Andrew Breitbart. Read more
