David Skok, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has been appointed The Boston Globe’s managing editor for digital. Skok was previously the Globe’s digital advisor. This new job comes with other responsibilities–Skok will also be general manager for Bostonglobe.com, meaning he … Read more
The Chicago Tribune has won the Nieman Foundation’s 2014 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism with “Red Light Cameras” a comprehensive series that exposed the corruption and mismanagement of a traffic-monitoring program that has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars from unsuspecting motorists in Chicago over the course of ten years. Read more
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce a joint conference for journalists reporting on the 2016 presidential election. The conference will take place in Chicago May 8-9, 2015. It is made possible with generous support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read more
The recipients of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards include groundbreaking reporting on bacha posh, the practice of girls raised as boys in Afghanistan, by Jenny Nordberg; a revealing account of Abraham Lincoln’s complex relationship with the press by Harold Holzer; and an eye-opening work by Dan Egan investigating how invasive species have threatened the existence of the Great Lakes. Read more
The Miami Herald’s meticulously researched and reported “Innocents Lost” series, which examines the deaths of hundreds of children in Florida, has won the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Herald’s I-Team explored how 477 children died over a six year period, victims not only of abusive or neglectful caregivers but of a flawed Florida child welfare system. The deaths occurred as Florida reduced the number of children in foster care at the same time it cut services for troubled families. Read more
The East Coast memorial service for Dori J. Maynard, a 1993 Nieman Fellow and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, has been scheduled for May 4. It will take place at the Newseum in Washington, … Read more
Derrick Z. Jackson co-authored the book “Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock.” The book, to be published by Yale University Press in April, describes the journey to bring puffins back … Read more
Paul Solman is one of three co-authors of “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits,” published by Simon & Schuster in February. The book helps retirees and those nearing retirement navigate the numerous … Read more
Hasit Shah received a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in February for his smartphone app Ketla, which aims to provide Indians with news in a comic book format. The grant will fund six months of work to … Read more
Patricia O’Brien, writing under the pen name “Kate Alcott,” authored a novel “A Touch of Stardust,” which was published by Doubleday in February. The book peeks behind the scenes of the classic movie “Gone with the Wind” and … Read more
