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The University of Sierra Leone has conferred on Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, Class of 1991 and Ghana's Ambassador to Cote D'Ivoire, a doctoral degree in Civil Laws. The degree was in…

Thomas Morgan III, Class of 1990, died Dec. 24. Morgan was the National Association of Black Journalist's eighth president and the first who was openly gay.

December 23, 2007 — Tim Giago, Class of 1991, was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in recent weeks — the first American Indian in a state…

Backcast, by Lou Ureneck, Class of 1995, is difficult to categorize and impossible to forget. It might be described as a stunning memoir, a marvelous outdoor adventure, or a breathtaking…

Editors’ World, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization of U.S. journalists, recently announced the formal launch of its web site, www.editorsworld.org. Nancy Hicks Maynard, member of the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board,…

John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC television and member of the Class of 1990, will join the political writing team for The New York Times. He will contribute political…

"A year ago Thanksgiving Day, Gerald Boyd [Class of 1981] died, and New York magazine marks the occasion by backing up the hearse to his grave, digging him up and…

Michael Anti, Class of 2008, recently returned from Germany, where he served on the jury of the Best of the Blogs awards. There he talked with blogger Ethan Zuckerman about…

Peg Finucane, Class of 1985, a much-loved former Newsday editor and professor at Hofstra University, died Sunday. Family and friends remembered Finucane as a masterful editor who guided reporters to…

Dick Hughes, editorial page editor of the (Salem, Ore.) Statesman Journal, recalls J. Wesley "Wes" Sullivan's passion for journalism and his community. "Over time, Wes became a role model. He…