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The Austin American-Statesman wins the 2022 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism at Harvard

The Austin American-Statesman wins the 2022 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism at Harvard

ProPublica and a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/ProPublica narrative are finalists
April 19, 2023
ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune win the 2022 Worth Bingham Prize at Harvard for “The Price Kids Pay”

ProPublica and the Chicago Tribune win the 2022 Worth Bingham Prize at Harvard for “The Price Kids Pay”

“The Price Kids Pay,” a joint investigation by reporters Jodi S. Cohen at ProPublica and Jennifer Smith Richards at the Chicago Tribune, is the winner of the 2022 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative…
April 13, 2023
Wendi C. Thomas receives the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Wendi C. Thomas receives the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Wendi C. Thomas, founding editor and publisher of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom in Memphis, Tennessee, has been selected as winner of the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.…
April 11, 2023
Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi win Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi win Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard

Fellows in the class of 2023 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have chosen Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi for the 2023 Louis M. Lyons Award for…
March 29, 2023
Winners and finalists of the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Winners and finalists of the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards announced

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and two finalists of the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.…
March 20, 2023
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics and the Nieman Foundation announce the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference

The University of Chicago Institute of Politics and the Nieman Foundation announce the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference

CHICAGO –The University of Chicago Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announce the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference for reporters covering the 2024 races for control of…
March 1, 2023
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce shortlists for the 2023 Lukas Prizes

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation announce shortlists for the 2023 Lukas Prizes

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2023 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas…
February 22, 2023
Jerrold L. Schecter, NF ’64, longtime Time magazine correspondent and author, dies at 90

Jerrold L. Schecter, NF ’64, longtime Time magazine correspondent and author, dies at 90

He helped acquire Nikita Khrushchev’s revelatory audio diaries and served as associate White House press secretary under President Jimmy Carter
February 15, 2023
Bruce Locklin, NF ’78, former investigative editor at The Record, dies at 84

Bruce Locklin, NF ’78, former investigative editor at The Record, dies at 84

Bruce Locklin, a 1978 Nieman Fellow, died in Cranbury, New Jersey, on Oct. 24, 2022, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.In 1973, Locklin became one of the…
October 31, 2022
Pakistani journalist Zawwar Hasan, NF ’67, dies at age 96

Pakistani journalist Zawwar Hasan, NF ’67, dies at age 96

Pakistani journalist Zawwar Hasan, a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1967, died in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2022, after a brief illness. He was 96.During his long career…
October 5, 2022