Tom Witosky, NF ’92, has co-authored a new book with Marc Hansen, “Equal Before the Law: How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality.” The book, published by University of Iowa Press, traces the impact of the Iowa Supreme Court’s … Read more
Photojournalist Eli Reed’s work is featured in “Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home,” published by University of Texas Press in May. The book includes more than 250 images from the span of Reed’s career, from self-portraits and photographs of Hollywood … Read more
Anita Harris’s memoir, “Ithaca Diaries: Coming of Age in the 1960s,” was has been published by Cambridge Common Press. Based on the Cornell University graduate’s diaries, letters and first-hand accounts, the book describes Harris’s collegiate life as protests and … Read more
Sandy Tolan, NF ’93, has written a new book, “Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land.” Released by Bloomsbury in April, the nonfiction book follows the journey of one man who, inspired by his … Read more
Brent Walth has left his post as managing editor of the Willamette Week to become a journalism professor at his alma mater, the University of Oregon. Walth, NF ’06, began his career at the alternative weekly as a reporter … Read more
David Jiménez, NF ’15, has been named editor-in-chief of El Mundo, Spain’s second-largest daily newspaper. A former Asia bureau chief for the paper, he has covered stories from the nuclear disaster at … Read more
Lorie Hearn, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, executive director and editor of inewsource, has received a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for her work on the multimedia series “An Impossible Choice.” Hearn also received a 2014 IRE Award for … Read more
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, training newsroom leaders and fostering journalistic innovation for 78 years, has selected 23* journalists as members of the 2016 class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes reporters, editors, … Read more
The Society for News Design has recognized the Nieman Foundation’s Web redesign with an Award of Excellence (small division) in its Best of Digital Design competition. Completed in the summer of 2014, the redesign was directed by the Boston-based design firm Upstatement as part of a comprehensive reorganization of Nieman’s online content to create a fully integrated family of Nieman sites and enhance the foundation’s ability to share and post content easily across publications. Read more
The Seattle Times has won a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for coverage of the Oso, Wash., mudslide. The natural disaster, which occurred last March, killed 43 people and destroyed many homes. Two Niemans–Ken Armstong, … Read more
