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Nieman Fellows collect fall awards

Three current Nieman Fellows have won journalism awards this fall for work done online and on air. Homicide Watch D.C., co-founded by Nieman Fellow Laura Amico and her husband Chris,…
October 12, 2012

Lunch conversation with Jodi Kantor

Coming into her own: Michelle Obama’s political transformation, and how it may help sway an election Jodi Kantor, New York Times correspondent and author of “The Obamas,” speaks with Ann…
October 9, 2012

CBS News Adds Holly Williams To Correspondent Ranks

CBS News has brought on Holly Williams as a correspondent. Williams, who had been based in China and now lives in Turkey, is a veteran foreign correspondent, most recently for…
October 9, 2012

South Africans mourn loss of Zwelakhe Sisulu

Zwelakhe Sisulu, NF ’85, a South African opposition newspaper editor and anti-apartheid activist who was jailed several times in the 1970s and ’80s for speaking out against black oppression, died…
October 4, 2012
Political journalists provide election insights at Harvard event

Political journalists provide election insights at Harvard event

The Nieman Foundation and Harvard’s Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity welcomed three leading political journalists to campus on Sept. 27 for “Press and the…
October 2, 2012

NABJ honors Nieman Journalists

Three Nieman Fellows have been named to the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame for their outstanding contributions to the industry. The new inductees are Betty Winston Bayé,…
October 1, 2012

Robert Manning, an influential editor of The Atlantic Monthly, dies at 92

Robert Manning, an influential editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a 1946 Nieman Fellow, died of lymphoma at a hospital in Boston on Sept. 28, 2012. He was 92.
October 1, 2012

Journalism’s new funding channel

How do you pay for important journalism in an era of diminishing funding and shrinking budgets? Ask 2013 Nieman-Berkman Fellow Laura Amico and her husband Chris, the founders of Homicide…
September 10, 2012

Former Globe and Mail literary editor William French dies at 86

For 30 of his 42 years at The Globe and Mail, three weekly columns were influential in determining a book's success. Although his byline disappeared with his retirement more than…
September 7, 2012

Two Niemans receive Dart fellowships

Kevin Sites, NF '10, and Dianne Solis, NF '90 have been chosen as members of the 2012 class of Ochberg Fellows at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at…
September 7, 2012