News 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 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 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… February 26, 2013 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… February 20, 2013 Previous 1 … 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 … 106 Next
