2012 Nieman Fellow Anna Griffin was recently promoted to managing producer for storytelling at The Oregonian. She will oversee writing and craft in the Portland paper’s newsroom, having previously worked at the paper as a city hall reporter and … Read more
Three Nieman Fellows–Craig Welch ’07, Ken Armstrong ’01, and Christopher Cousins ’07–have received recognition from the Online News Association (ONA). In the breaking news category, the ONA selected The Seattle Times’s work on the Oso mudslide, a report … Read more
Callie Crossley, a WGBH host and 1983 Nieman Fellow, won a Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association, and a Massachusetts/Rhode Island Associated Press radio … Read more
On the eve of South African journalist Nat Nakasa’s reburial, Joe Thloloe, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, gave the inaugural Nakasa commemorative lecture. “Nat’s life and struggle have been vindicated,” Thloloe said. Nakasa, a 1965 Nieman Fellow, died in New … Read more
Jane Spencer is now editor in chief for digital content at Fusion. Spencer, a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was a founding editor of The Daily Beast. Read more
Brett Anderson received a first-place award from the Society for Features Journalism for his restaurant reviews in The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. Read more
Laura Amico has been named news editor for multimedia and data projects at The Boston Globe. Amico, who founded Homicide Watch D.C., had been editor of Boston public radio station WBUR’s Learning Lab. Read more
Raquel Rutledge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, will be an O’Brien Fellow at Marquette University for the 2014–15 academic year. Read more
Alejandra Matus’s unauthorized biography of General Augusto Pinochet’s widow, Lucia Hiriart, was published in November by Ediciones B. In writing “Doña Lucia,” Matus interviewed friends, relatives, former employees, and former members of Pinochet’s regime. Read more
Beth Macy’s “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town” was published in July by Little, Brown. She won the 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Read more
