News Nieman’s Year in Review The Nieman Foundation’s 2011 Annual Report is now online. The report chronicles the many events that took place during the past year and features information about new developments at the… December 20, 2011 USAID head stresses value of global health journalism Speaking before journalists and policymakers at Harvard on Dec. 8, USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah discussed USAID initiatives that are saving the lives of people around the globe, including successful… December 9, 2011 Global Health Fellow examines famine relief crisis in Africa In an opinion piece in the New York Times, 2012 Nieman Global Health Reporting Fellow Samuel Loewenberg takes a look at the ongoing problem of delayed response to drought and… November 29, 2011 New York Times columnist Tom Wicker dies Tom Wicker, NF ’58, a political columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, died Nov. 25 at the age of 85 at his home near Rochester, Vermont. November 25, 2011 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 Previous 1 … 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 … 104 Next
