The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University launches a new Web site today to encourage watchdog reporting by drawing on authorities in various fields to suggest questions for the press to ask. Read more
A report by The Blade of Toledo that uncovered Vietnam-era war crimes kept secret for three and a half decades has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
Zhanna Litvina, a pioneering radio journalist in Belarus, has been selected by the sitting class of Nieman Fellows to receive the 2004 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
Michael M. Grynbaum and Stephen M. Marks will report on Harvard College admissions policies and processes through a fellowship awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Grynbaum covers local and national politics, and Marks covers the university administration as members of The Harvard Crimson staff. Read more
A definitive work on the Vietnam era by David Maraniss, a biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit and an examination of slavery by John Bowe were named the winners of this year's J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Read more
Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, will be the 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more
A special edition of Nieman Reports featuring practical and reflective guidance from 84 leading journalists and scholars who study or report on science, the environment, health and medicine has been published by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more
The new wing on the Nieman Foundation's home at Harvard University will honor the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its long-standing support of the Nieman mission to elevate the standards of journalism. Read more
Barry Sussman, who led The Washington Post's day-to-day coverage of the Watergate scandal, has been named editor of the Watchdog Project at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Read more