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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…

Larry L. King, NF ’70, died on December 20 at the age of 83. A native of Texas and a prolific journalist and author, King was perhaps best known as…

Bolivian journalist Raul Peñaranda, NF '08, has received the United Nations Correspondents Association’s 2012 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize (gold) for written media. U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, presented the award…

The Nieman Foundation’s 2012 Annual Report is now online. It examines the many events and changes that took place during the past year including news about programming developments and collaborative…

The Nieman Foundation has selected three journalists as Visiting Fellows for the 2013 calendar year. Each will spend a period of time at Harvard University to work on a project…

Los Nieman Fellows de la Universidad de Harvard han decidido otorgar a Marcela Turati, de la revista mexicana Proceso, el Premio Louis Lyons a la conciencia e integridad en el…

The Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Marcela Turati of the Mexican newsmagazine Proceso as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in…

Sandy Close, executive editor and director of Pacific News Service (PNS), was presented with the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence on Dec. 6, 2012. She spoke about the…

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek discusses plans for his epic journey around the world and a groundbreaking experiment in slow journalism. In January 2013, journalist…

Editor and author James Geary, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has been selected as the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. In this position he will serve as editor…