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Beth Macy wins SABEW Award

Beth Macy, NF ’10, has won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for her three-part Roanoke Times series Picking Up the Pieces. Her reports examine how globalization…

Values and Voting Systems

Souad Mekhennet, NF ’13, reports on the state of reform in Bahrain two years after the Arab Spring: “Western politicians, the public, and political organizations were quick to take the…

Three Nieman Fellows win George Polk Awards

Three Nieman alumni have won George Polk Awards in Journalism for their work in 2012: Holly Williams, NF ’08, Hannah Allam, NF ’09, and Michael Kirk, NF ’80.

Peter Wolodarski, NF ’09, to lead Dagens Nyheter

Peter Wolodarski, NF ’09, has been named as the new editor-in-chief of Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter (DN). He will assume his new role on March 1. Wolodarski has…

Andrew Quinn, NF ’08, Joins Aspen Institute

Andrew Quinn, a 2008 Nieman Global Health Reporting Fellow, has joined The Aspen Institute as director of the New Voices Fellowship.

A witness to nation-building in South Sudan

French documentary filmmakers Florence Martin-Kessler, NF ’11, and Anne Poiret have spent the last few years chronicling South Sudan’s rocky road to independence and the many challenges along the way.…

Nieman Fellows shine a light on the gates of Harvard

Giving back to the Harvard community they call home this academic year, three Nieman Fellows recently offered a January Term course on Harvard's historic gates. Leading a class of curious…

Stanley Karnow, NF ’58, dies at 87

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Stanley Karnow, a 1958 Nieman Fellow known for his exhaustive and insightful coverage of Southeast Asia, has died at the age of 87. A 1947…

Nieman Lab launches weekly Press Publish podcasts

The Nieman Journalism Lab has launched a new weekly podcast series, Press Publish, that will feature conversations with the people who are shaping the future of news. The project kicks…

Shelby Scates, NF ’63, dies at 81

Shelby Scates, a 1963 Nieman Fellow and longtime political reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died on Jan. 3 at the age of 81. He covered wars and presidential…