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David Jackson wins Studs Terkel Community Media Award

David Jackson, a 2009 Nieman Fellow and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was chosen as a recipient of the 2009 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Presented annually, the awards honor…

Greenhaw delivers Davis Distinguished Lecture

Alabama writer, prize-winning journalist, and 1973 Nieman Fellow Wayne Greenhaw delivered Auburn University's Neil and Henrietta Davis Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 25, 2009.

Detroit Free Press Wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “A Mayor in Crisis”

Staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick and their colleagues at the Detroit Free Press are winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for their comprehensive series…
Serenissima: Venice in Winter

Serenissima: Venice in Winter

Frank Van Riper, a 1979 Nieman Fellow, and his wife and professional partner, Judith Goodman, are “thrilled to report the publication of our latest book, ‘Serenissima: Venice in Winter.’” The…

Don Janson dies at 87

Don Janson, who's long career in journalism included 34 years with The New York Times, died Feb. 1 at the age of 87. By the time he retired he had…

Mystical Ecumenism: Photography from Islam’s heartlands

Travel through the heartlands of Sufism with the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis. The exhibition runs Feb. 5 - March 10 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

NPR’s Gwen Thompkins to Deliver Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture

Gwen Thompkins, East Africa Correspondent for National Public Radio, will present the 2009 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on February 5,…

James Colvin dies at 96

James E. Colvin, a scholar and one of the oldest living fellows, died Jan. 4, 2009, at 96. He was a member of the Class of 1942.
Documentary film brings the lost history of the Ellis Island Hospital to life

Documentary film brings the lost history of the Ellis Island Hospital to life

“Forgotten Ellis Island” — a documentary film directed by Lorie Conway, a 1994 Nieman Fellow — will be broadcast nationally on PBS on Feb. 2, at 10 pm ET. Narrated…

Obama’s Indonesian Classroom

Endy M. Bayuni, a 2004 Nieman Fellow, shares how living in Jakarta, Indonesia, may have helped shape the man who would become the 44th President of the United States.