News News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited In 1961, FCC Chairman Newt Minow famously described television as a “vast wasteland” and called for new public interest programming. Fifty years later, Minow gathered at Harvard with others including Harvard Law… November 20, 2011 Freedom of the Press in Latin America Leading Latin American journalists — including past and present Nieman Fellows — gathered at Harvard on Nov. 18 for a one-day conference that took a close look at press freedom in… November 18, 2011 Mohammed Nabbous Receives Lyons Award Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Mohammed “Mo” Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in… November 18, 2011 Nieman journalists to examine press freedom in Latin America Leading Latin American journalists — including past and present Nieman Fellows — will gather at Harvard on Nov. 18 for a one-day conference that will take a close look at… November 10, 2011 The Inestimable Value of an Afghan Reporter Waheed Abdul Wafa, NF ’11, was The New York Times’s longest-serving reporter in Afghanistan. Now he has left journalism to become executive director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University. November 8, 2011 Robert Blau joins Pulitzer Prize Board Robert Blau — a managing editor at Bloomberg News noted for his commitment to investigative and narrative journalism — along with historian Steven Hahn, has been elected to the Pulitzer… October 31, 2011 Nieman Reports explores the future of the Arab Press Uprisings and revolt are shaping the political future of Arab nations, and journalists are trying to respond to the demand for reporting that people can trust. On Thursday, Oct. 27,… October 27, 2011 Alex Jones Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, was among 177 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists,… October 21, 2011 Not depending on the authorities to tell the story A.C. Thompson received the 2011 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence on Oct. 4 at Boston University. Thompson is a staff reporter for ProPublica whose work frequently exposes social injustice… October 7, 2011 Rose Marie Economou, 1946-2011 Rose Economou, and Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Columbia College professor, died Sunday, Oct. 2, at 65. A 1981 Nieman Fellow, Economou worked at the school for two decades after… October 7, 2011 Previous 1 … 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 … 104 Next
