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Joe Thloloe receives honorary doctorate in law

Joe Thloloe, NF '89 and chair of this year's South Africa Nieman selection committee, has received an honorary doctorate in law from Rhodes University. He was recognized as "a long-standing…

Ann Marie Lipinski Named New Curator of Nieman Foundation

Ann Marie Lipinski, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Chicago Tribune, has been named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing: Amy Ellis Nutt

Only one of seven crew members survived the sudden sinking of the Lady Mary, a scallop boat, in March 2009. Reporter Amy Ellis Nutt, NF ’05, spent seven months unraveling…

Brent Walth Joins Willamette Week as News Editor

Brent Walth, an award-winning investigative reporter for The Oregonian, has been hired to be managing news editor for Willamette (Portland, Ore.) Week. Walth is a 2006 Nieman Fellow.

Kevin Cullen Among Winners of DART Awards

Kevin Cullen, a 2003 Nieman Fellow, was part of The Boston Globe team that won a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Established in 1995, the annual Dart…

Nieman Fellows examine Latin American journalism

Several Nieman Fellows contributed to the latest issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, published by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The new magazine focuses on…
The Value of the Nieman Experience

The Value of the Nieman Experience

Nieman curator Bob Giles writes about “The Value of the Nieman Fellows’ Experience” in the Spring 2011 issue of Nieman Reports. His comments about the 50th anniversary of the South…

Defending Freedom of the Press

Documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk, NF ’80, who produced 60 Frontline investigations and won two Peabody awards, was selected to receive the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s First…

Ah, To Be a Fellow Again!

Mary C. Curtis, NF ’06, is one of the 24 inaugural social media fellows chosen by the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. Nearly 600 journalists applied for this three-month…

Columbia, Nieman Foundation announce winners of the 2011 Lukas Prize Project

The recipients of the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction include authors Eliza Griswold (a 2007 Nieman Fellow), Isabel Wilkerson and Alex Tizon. The awards will…