News

Ken Armstrong, NF ’01, and his colleague Michael J. Berens at The Seattle Times have won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for “Methadone and the Politics of Pain.”…

The work of a number of Nieman Fellows has been recognized recently with national journalism awards. Honored Niemans include Hui Siu Fun, NF ’11; Lisa Mullins, NF '10; David Jackson,…

Peruvian miners turn rain forest into wastelands. Corruption and mismanagement keep West Africans from clean drinking water. These and other stories were heard from international journalists who are mapping the impact…

Thomas Sancton, a Southern journalist who was praised and condemned for his civil rights reporting in the 1940s and went on to become a teacher and novelist, died Friday, April…

Bill Marimow, a 1983 Nieman Fellow, is returning to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Marimow, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, was editor of the Inquirer from 2006 to October 2010, when…

Melanie Sill, the former editor of The Sacramento Bee and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., will be the new executive editor of KPCC's Southern California Public Radio. Sill…

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation have named the winners of the 2012 Lukas Prize Project Awards. Vanderbilt University law professor Daniel Sharfstein has won the 2012 J. Anthony…

The Los Angeles Times has won the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for its six-part series “Billions to Spend.” During an 18-month investigation, the paper found that a $5.7…

The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., has won the 2011 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Twisted Truth: A Prosecutor Under Fire,” a three-part series reported by…

When Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges traveled to the Gaza Strip in 2001 for Harper’s magazine, they researched a little-known mass killing from 1956. But when the piece, written by…