John Herbers, a 1961 Nieman Fellow and a longtime New York Times reporter who covered the civil rights era, died March 17 in Washington, D.C. He was 93. Reporting first for United Press International and then joining the … Read more
Steve Oney, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is the author of a new book, “A Man’s World,” a collection of 20 profiles of such archetypal men as Harrison Ford, Robert Penn Warren, Herschel Walker, and Andrew Breitbart. Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the 2017 Shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards - the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize.
The winners and finalists of the 2017 Lukas Prizes will be announced on March 27. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 2 at Columbia Journalism School in New York. Read more
T.V. Parasuram, a longtime Washington correspondent for the Press Trust of India and a 1959 Nieman Fellow, died February 14 in Bethesda, Maryland due to an age-related illness. He was 93. Born in Kerala, India in 1923, Parasuram … Read more
Ohio representatives have introduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Simeon Booker, a civil rights icon and 1951 Nieman Fellow, in recognition of his many achievements in the field of journalism. Representatives Tim Ryan, Dave Joyce, … Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected a group of 11 journalists and media executives as Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows for the 2017 calendar year. Each will spend time at Harvard University to work on an innovative … Read more
2007 Nieman Fellow Luwei (Rose) Luqiu, now in the second year of a PhD program in communication at Penn State, has published a scholarly article, “The Reappearance of the Cult of Personality in China.” She enrolled in the … Read more
Selig S. Harrison, a 1955 Nieman Fellow who covered Asia for The Washington Post and later became a preeminent authority on the region, died in Camden, Maine on December 30 due to complications from a blood disorder. He … Read more
Peter Binzen, a 1962 Nieman Fellow who covered Philadelphia for more than half a century, died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 16 from complications of a stroke. He was 94. Binzen spent more than 30 years as … Read more
John Painter Jr., a longtime Oregonian reporter and a 1977 Nieman Fellow, died on November 18 from complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Painter spent nearly four decades at The Oregonian, where he covered everything from Bruce … Read more
