Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will receive the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence in February. The two journalists will come to Harvard to speak about their work. Read more
Tyler Hicks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior photographer for The New York Times, delivered the 34th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov. 6, 2014. The annual lecture honors an American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs. Read more
Lisa Stone, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, has sold BlogHer, a women-oriented blogging network she co-founded, to SheKnows, another digital media company targeted at women. Advertising Age reported that a source familiar with the deal said SheKnows purchased … Read more
Lorie Conway, NF ’94, has produced a documentary, “Making the Case, Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law,” about the work of Beatrice Mtetwa, a Zimbabwean lawyer who has taken up the difficult and controversial task of defending political prisoners jailed by … Read more
Vladimir A. Voina, a 1990 Nieman Fellow and Russian journalist who wrote for a number of U.S. and Russian publications, died from cancer complications on October 16 in Boston. He was 83. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected six journalists and media executives as Visiting Fellows for the 2014-15 academic year. Each will spend a short period of time at Harvard University to work on an innovative project designed to advance journalism. Read more
Maggie Koerth-Baker’s New York Times Magazine story, “Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!” has been included in the 2014 volume of the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology series, published on October 7 by … Read more
Karim Ben Khelifa, a 2013 Nieman Fellow, will take part in the Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, a week of development workshops, in late October. The institute selected Khelifa for his project “The Enemy,” which Khelifa worked on during … Read more
“Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town,” a book by Beth Macy, a 2010 Nieman Fellow, will be adapted for the small screen as an HBO miniseries produced by actor/director Tom Hanks. The … Read more
