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NYT Reporter Sam Dolnick Receives 2012 Worth Bingham Prize

New York Times reporter Sam Dolnick has won the 2012 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his three-part series Unlocked: Inside New Jersey’s Halfway Houses. During an exhaustive 10-month…
March 19, 2013

Longtime urban-affairs specialist Grady Clay, 96, dies

Grady Clay, NF ’49, a journalist and a leading national authority on urban design who wrote for The Courier-Journal and edited Landscape Architecture Quarterly, died Sunday, March 17, at 96.…
March 19, 2013

Kevin Cullen wins ASNE’s Batten Medal

Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, a 2003 Nieman Fellow, has won the Batten Medal for individual achievement in public-service journalism from the American Society of News Editors. Cullen, who also…
March 18, 2013

Remembering Murrey Marder, Washington Post reporter and Nieman Watchdog founder

Longtime Washington Post reporter and Nieman Watchdog Project founder Murrey Marder died on March 11, 2013, at the age of 93. A tireless crusader for watchdog and accountability journalism, he…
March 12, 2013

Dorothy Parvaz, receives McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage

Journalist Dorothy Parvaz, a 2009 Nieman Fellow who was jailed and interrogated for several weeks in 2011 while attempting to cover the civil war in Syria, will receive the McGill…
March 8, 2013
2013 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

2013 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

Learn more about Marcela Turati, a reporter for the Mexican news magazine, Proceso and winner of the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. The Nieman class of…
March 7, 2013

Robert A. Caro wins National Book Critics Circle Award

Robert A. Caro, NF ’66, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson the fourth installment of his widely acclaimed…
March 6, 2013

Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award with “Playing with Fire”

The Chicago Tribune has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2012 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Playing with Fire.” The six-part series revealed how the chemical and tobacco industries…
March 5, 2013

Assessing the value of criticism

Critical Condition: Why Professional Criticism Matters in the Winter 2013 issue of Nieman Reports, examines how professional criticism can not only survive but thrive in the age of user reviews.…
February 28, 2013

Mastering Disruptive Innovation in Journalism

In a special Nieman seminar on Feb. 27, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen and 2012 Nieman Fellow David Skok, director of Globalnews.ca, spoke about how Christensen’s groundbreaking theory of…
February 27, 2013