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Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age.

During a journalism career that lasted more than five decades, Saul Friedman earned a reputation as a tough reporter who battled public officials and his editors with equal ferocity. Friedman,…

Award-winning journalist Bryan Monroe has joined CNN as editor of CNNPolitics.com. In this newly created role, Monroe will lead the editorial planning and content strategy for CNN's online and mobile…

“As we commemorate Lasantha [Wickrematunge's] death anniversary we must not forget those other brave journalists who have also paid the supreme sacrifice in the pursuit of their craft. Several other…

Art Geiselman, a former (Baltimore) Evening Sun reporter who relished catching crooked police officers and exposing squalid conditions at prisons and mental hospitals over a 47-year career in journalism, died…

The Nieman Foundation’s 2010 annual report is now online. It highlights the many partnerships the foundation has formed in the interest of strengthening journalism worldwide through Nieman fellowships, print and…

The WikiLeaks Iraq and Afghanistan war logs—and now the roll out of diplomatic cables—are having an enormous impact on journalism. On December 16, 2010, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism convened…

After months of negotiation, Middle East correspondent Dexter Filkins, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, is leaving The New York Times and heading to The New Yorker. This move provides the publication…

An article by Nieman Curator Bob Giles, “An Emergent Neo-Journalism: The Decline and Renewal of News Media,” has been published in the Fall 2010 issue of the Harvard International Review.…

James Baxter, a 2008 Nieman Fellow, this week launched iPolitics.ca, Canada's answer to Politico. Featuring political coverage on policy, departmental news and inside scoops from Parliament Hill, iPolitics.ca includes original…