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Michael J. Berens wins Worth Bingham Prize for “Seniors for Sale”

Reporter Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times is winner of the 2010 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for his comprehensive six-part series “Seniors for Sale: Exploiting the aged…
March 15, 2011

Tim Giago retires from the newsroom

Tim Giago, Editor/Publisher of Native Sun News will put down his pen and retire from the newsroom April 1, three years to the day after he launched this “last and…
March 10, 2011
Harvard’s Rev. Peter Gomes dies at 68

Harvard’s Rev. Peter Gomes dies at 68

Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, a longtime friend of the Nieman Foundation and host to decades of Nieman classes in his home on campus has died. Gomes, Plummer Professor of…
March 3, 2011

Knight Center founder to be honored at investigative journalism conference

Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas founder Rosental Calmon Alves will be recognized for his academic and journalistic contributions at the Brazilian Investigative Journalism Association's (ABRAJI) sixth annual International…
March 3, 2011

Maria Balinska wins Global Digital News Frontier grant

The International Women's Media Foundation announced Feb. 16 the winners of the inaugural Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Digital News Frontier grants. Each grantee will receive $20,000 to launch innovative…
March 3, 2011

Dexter Filkins among winners of Polk Awards

Dexter Filkins, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, is one of 13 George Polk Award winners for 2010. For behind-the-scenes reports on the war in Afghanistan, enemy incursions from Pakistan and the…
March 1, 2011

Argus Leader wins Taylor Family Award with “Growing Up Indian”

The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls has won the 2010 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers with “Growing Up Indian,” an eight-part series that examines the daunting challenges faced…
February 23, 2011
South African fellowship turns 50

South African fellowship turns 50

The new challenges of journalism and press freedom in South Africa will be the focus as media leaders gather in Cape Town on Saturday, Feb. 12, to mark the 50th…
February 7, 2011

Medill names Tulsky Director of new watchdog/accountability initiative

Investigative editor and reporter Rick Tulsky is joining Medill as Director of its new watchdog/accountability initiative. Tulsky, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, will lead development of an initiative that will involve students,…
January 31, 2011

Dexter Filkins to deliver the 2011 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture

Veteran war correspondent Dexter Filkins will deliver the 30th annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation on Thursday, February 3, 2011. “Dexter has earned a place…
January 31, 2011