The 2006 Class of Nieman Fellows has chosen Atwar Bahjat to receive this year's Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
The Nieman Foundation has launched a new Web site to advance the practice of narrative journalism in the U.S. and the world; provide useful and inspiring resources for writers, editors, teachers and students of narrative; and offer a forum for the exchange of narrative-related ideas and resources. Read more
Nieman Fellowships in global health reporting have been established at Harvard University as a joint initiative of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Harvard School of Public Health, supported by a three-year, $1.19 million grant to Harvard from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more
Twelve international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 2005-06 academic year. They will join 12 U.S. journalists whose names were announced in May to make up the 68th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Read more
Mark Kramer, director of the Nieman Foundation Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University, was the keynote speaker at South Africa's first narrative journalism conference. Read more
The Nieman Foundation is withdrawing its role as a partner in a program to help inform Chinese officials about the needs of a free press covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, in cooperation with the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard and the Harvard University Asia Center, will sponsor an educational program for senior Chinese officials working with foreign media during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read more