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2007-2008 Nieman Fellowship in Arts & Culture Reporting

The Nieman Foundation will award a fellowship to a U.S. journalist specializing in arts and culture reporting for the academic year 2007-2008.

Nieman Foundation Announces U.S. and International Fellows for 2006-2007

Twenty-eight U.S. and international journalists have been named to the 69th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.

The Sacramento Bee Series on Immigrant Forest Workers Wins $10,000 Taylor Family Award

A series by The Sacramento Bee about the misuse and abuse of Latino immigrants who work in America's forest industry has won the 2006 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in…

Nieman Fellows Honor Slain Iraqi Reporter With 2006 Louis Lyons Award

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.

Nieman Foundation Introduces New Online Nieman Narrative Digest

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,…

Columbia and Nieman Foundation Announce 2006 Lukas Prize Project Awards

Three Prizes Honor J. Anthony Lukas, Late Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author

Statement on the Death of Liu Binyan From Nieman Foundation Curator Bob Giles

"Liu Binyan was a courageous Chinese journalist who believed deeply in bringing truth and honesty to his reporting."

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funds Three-Year Grant For Nieman Fellowship in Global Health Reporting

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…

Nieman Foundation Announces International Fellows for 2005-06

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…

Nieman Narrative Director Keynotes First South African Narrative Journalism Conference

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.