Florence Graves Florence Graves, founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, has been named the new chair of the I.F. Stone Medal selection committee. The group … Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard today announced the named fellowships for the Nieman class of 2017. These fellowships are supported by foundation grants and endowed funds that provide vital financial assistance to journalists from the United States … Read more
Derrick Z. Jackson, NF ’84, has been named a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School for Fall 2016. The Shorenstein fellowship program invites four individuals to spend an academic semester at Harvard doing research in the field of … Read more
Yossi Melman, NF ’90, is among the Israeli and U.S. officials and experts featured in the cybercrime documentary “Zero Days,” which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and is slated for limited release in the … Read more
Grzegorz Piechota, NF ’16, is the recipient of the Silver Shovel Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and contributions to the International News Media Association. Piechota, a former news editor of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, recently published the INMA report … Read more
Ines Pohl, NF ’05, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Pohl joined Deutsche Welle in 2015 as a foreign correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Before that, she served as the … Read more
Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, is the recipient of a 2016 Mirror Award for her article “Automation in the Newsroom,” which appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Nieman Reports. The cover story, which was recognized in … Read more
Sabam Siagian, a 1979 Nieman Fellow and the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post, died in a Jakarta hospital on June 3. He was 84. Sabam, who was the first Nieman Fellow from Indonesia, served at the … Read more
David Lamb, a 1981 Nieman Fellow and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia. Lamb, who had been battling lymphoma and esophageal cancer, was 76. Lamb is perhaps best known … Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has named Kari Howard as the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the foundation’s online publication that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores the craft of nonfiction storytelling.
Howard joins Storyboard from the Los Angeles Times, where she worked since 1992, serving for the past four years as editor of the Times’ signature narrative journalism feature Column One. Howard raised Column One’s profile online, where it was rechristened Great Reads, and wrote the weekly Great Reads newsletter, which reached 45,000 subscribers. Read more
