Grzegorz Piechota, NF ’16, is the recipient of the Silver Shovel Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and contributions to the International News Media Association. Piechota, a former news editor of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, recently published the INMA report … Read more
Ines Pohl, NF ’05, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Pohl joined Deutsche Welle in 2015 as a foreign correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Before that, she served as the … Read more
Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, is the recipient of a 2016 Mirror Award for her article “Automation in the Newsroom,” which appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Nieman Reports. The cover story, which was recognized in … Read more
Sabam Siagian, a 1979 Nieman Fellow and the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post, died in a Jakarta hospital on June 3. He was 84. Sabam, who was the first Nieman Fellow from Indonesia, served at the … Read more
David Lamb, a 1981 Nieman Fellow and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia. Lamb, who had been battling lymphoma and esophageal cancer, was 76. Lamb is perhaps best known … Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has named Kari Howard as the new editor of Nieman Storyboard, the foundation’s online publication that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores the craft of nonfiction storytelling.
Howard joins Storyboard from the Los Angeles Times, where she worked since 1992, serving for the past four years as editor of the Times’ signature narrative journalism feature Column One. Howard raised Column One’s profile online, where it was rechristened Great Reads, and wrote the weekly Great Reads newsletter, which reached 45,000 subscribers. Read more
William R. Grant, a 1980 Nieman Fellow and an award-winning reporter and television producer, passed away on May 15 of complications from pneumonia. He was 72. Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Grant attended the University of Kentucky and, in 1965, … Read more
Kate Galbraith, NF ’08, has been honored by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies for her article “New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding their Niche,” which explains why new print publications needs to be scrappy and innovative. Read more
Japanese journalist Yoichi Funabashi, NF ’76, the former editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun, has won the 2015 Shorenstein Journalism Award. Presented annually by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, the award honors a journalist not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for the particular way that work has helped American readers to understand the complexities of Asia. Read more
Gaiutra Bahadur, NF ’08, has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Fellow at the Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. She will spend the 2016-2017 academic year at the Harvard … Read more
