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“How to Write for the Web” — a book by Guillermo Franco, a 2005 Nieman Fellow and digital journalist in Colombia — was published in December 2008 by the Knight…

Scheherezade Faramarzi, a reporter for the Associated Press in Lebanon and member of the Class of 2009, was a guest speaker at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on Tuesday,…

David Heath and Seattle Times colleague Hal Bernton won the 2008 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress for their multi-platform series “The Favor Factory.” The Times series…

Jacksonville State University recently named former Star editor and veteran journalist Chris Waddle its Ayers Chair of Communications. "I have been a teacher all my career in a sense that…

Marilyn Geewax, Class of 1995,  will join National Public Radio’s National Desk as the new Senior Business Editor starting Dec. 15. She previously was the national economics correspondent for Cox…

National Public Radio defense correspondent Guy Raz was selected as winner of the 2008 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize for a three-part series entitled "Rescuing the Wounded: Iraq to Germany" which…

Ronke Olawale was honored with a Nigerian National Media Merit Award. Olawale, who is a member of the Class of 2009, received the Ernest Sisei Ikoli Prize for Newspaper Reporter…

The Victoria Advocate recently won a variety of honors from the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA): first place for its front page; first place for best use of multimedia; second…

The Nieman Foundation's newest Web publication — the Nieman Journalism Lab — launched Monday, Oct. 27 under the direction of Joshua Benton. A

A panel of top journalists tries to derive some lessons from the elite media's failure to challenge what turned out to be a specious argument for war in Iraq.