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Wallace Turner, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for exposing corruption in Portland, Ore., and who later illuminated the inner workings of the Mormon Church while covering the American West for…

Alfredo Corchado, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, received the 2010 Elijah Lovejoy Award in a ceremony at Colby College on Sunday, Sept. 26. Corchado said he would accept the award, but…

Responding to the many dangers faced by reporters today, especially those working in Mexico, a number of leading Latin American and Caribbean journalists have issued a declaration calling for official…

Margie Mason, a 2009 Nieman Global Health Fellow, was among the 2010 recipients of the Science in Society Journalism Awards. Mason and Martha Mendoza won in the Science Reporting category…

Supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, journalist and 2009 Nieman Fellow Fatima Tlisova writes in the fall issue of Nieman Reports about the extreme dangers of reporting in…

Nkosi, described by many as a "giant of South African letters" and one of the voices of the Drum generation of writers, died September 5 in Johannesburg at the age…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting have joined forces to support international reporting initiatives with a special focus on global health coverage. …

John S. Carroll, a 1972 Nieman Fellow and member of the Nieman Advisory Board, has been selected to receive the William Allen White Foundation’s national citation. The award—presented annually by…

Melissa Ludtke, editor of Nieman Reports and a 1992 Nieman Fellow, has been selected as a winner of a 2010 Yankee Quill Award. Considered to be the highest individual honor…

Juan Manuel Santos swore in as Colombia’s new president on Saturday, August 7, promising to improve ties with its Andean neighbors and to continue his predecessor’s tough line against leftist…