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Managing editor to leave Baltimore Sun

In the latest high-level departure at The Baltimore Sun, Managing Editor Robert Blau announced his resignation. Blau is a member of the Class of 1997.

H. Y. Sharada Prasad Dies at 84

H.Y. Sharada Prasad, media adviser to former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, died Sept. 2 following a prolonged illness. Prasad was a member of the Class of 1956.

Edwin O. Guthman dies at 89

Edwin O. Guthman, 89, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsman respected for his unwavering integrity and whose storied career included stints as a soldier, a public servant, an educator, and editor of…

Jeb Sharp a Recipient of Sigma Delta Chi Award

The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on April 14. Jeb Sharp, Class of 2006, was part of…

Jack Landau Dies at 74

Jack Landau, 74, an early leader of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, died Aug. 9 of complications from emphysema. Landau, a reporter-lawyer covering the U.S. Supreme Court…

2008 Lovejoy Award Recipient Anne Hull

Anne Hull, a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who reported the story that exposed the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal in 2007 and has spent her…

Nieman Foundation Names New Fellow to Class of 2009

The Nieman Foundation has selected Russian journalist Fatima Tlisova as a member of the Nieman Class of 2009.

NABJ Honors Five Niemans with 2008 Salute to Excellence Award

Five Nieman Fellows were among the 2008 recipients of the National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Awards. The annual awards recognize exemplary coverage of the African and African-American…

John Walcott Receives First I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence for pre-Iraq War Coverage

John Walcott, Washington bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., is the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

Editor Who Shaped Chicago Tribune Steps Down

Ann Marie Lipinski, 30 summers after she arrived at the Chicago Tribune for what was supposed to be a three-month internship and seven years after becoming its first female editor,…