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Deborah Amos to receive Murrow award

Deborah Amos, a 1992 Nieman Fellow, will receive the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award/Radio Division on April 20 at Washington State University. Following the award presentation, Amos will exchange…
April 16, 2010

Gene Weingarten wins 2010 Pulitzer

Gene Weingarten was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Featuring Writing for "Fatal Distraction." In March 2009, the Washington Post Magazine published his story about parents who accidentally left infants…
April 13, 2010

Daedalus features essay by Bob Giles

The Spring 2010 issue of Daedalus on “The Future of News” includes an essay by Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation, in which he explores new economic models for…
April 12, 2010

Craig Welch publishes “Shell Games”

“Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty” is a stranger-than-fiction account of a fisherman who stole millions of dollars worth of some of the world’s most extraordinary…
April 12, 2010

Robert Caro, NF ’66, to be inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

Robert Caro, a 1966 Nieman Fellow, is to be inducted into the newly created New York State Writers Hall of Fame on Friday, April 9. Caro is a two-time winner…
April 6, 2010

María Hinojosa interviews Fellows Alfredo Corchado, Anita Snow

Award-winning journalist María Hinojosa recently interviewed two Nieman Fellows for “One-on-One.” Alfredo Corchado, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, talks about why he risks his life every day to report the truth…
April 5, 2010

Margaret Engel collaborates on screenplay

Margaret Engel, a 1979 Nieman Fellow and director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, has teamed up with her twin sister Allison to write a screenplay on the life of the…
March 31, 2010

Columbia, Nieman Foundation announce ’10 Lukas Prize Project Award winners

The recipients of the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction include David Finkel’s up-close examination of the human costs of making war; James Davidson’s study of…
March 30, 2010

New Orleans broadcasting legend Phil Johnson dies at 80

Phil Johnson, the New Orleans television icon who helped build WWL-TV’s newsroom into a local and national powerhouse, giving the station a distinctive and distinguished on-air editorial voice while also…
March 24, 2010

3 alums receive National Headliner Awards

Three Nieman Fellows were among the recipients of the 2010 National Headliner Awards: Guy Raz, Elizabeth Leland, and Margie Mason.
March 22, 2010