The Charlotte Observer has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for its coverage of health and safety violations in the poultry industry. The paper’s series “The Cruelest Cuts” revealed how trade officials repeatedly ignored and threatened injured workers, endangering the health of thousands. Read more
"The Forever War," a book reporting on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan by Dexter Filkins, was awarded The National Book Critics Circle prize for general nonfiction. The National Book Critics Circle Award is presented annually for the finest books and reviews published in English. Filkins is a 2007 Nieman Fellow. Read more
David Jackson, a 2009 Nieman Fellow and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was chosen as a recipient of the 2009 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Presented annually, the awards honor outstanding media professionals for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago's diverse communities. Read more
Alabama writer, prize-winning journalist, and 1973 Nieman Fellow Wayne Greenhaw delivered Auburn University's Neil and Henrietta Davis Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 25, 2009. Read more
Staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick and their colleagues at the Detroit Free Press are winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis.” The Bingham Prize will be presented at the Nieman Foundation on March 5, 2009. Read more
Frank Van Riper, a 1979 Nieman Fellow, and his wife and professional partner, Judith Goodman, are “thrilled to report the publication of our latest book, ‘Serenissima: Venice in Winter.’” The book is a hardcover collection of photographs and essays about the Floating City when the tourists have left. Read more
Don Janson, who's long career in journalism included 34 years with The New York Times, died Feb. 1 at the age of 87. By the time he retired he had interviewed nine U.S. presidents and covered many of the most notable events of the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s. Janson was a 1953 Nieman Fellow. Read more
Travel through the heartlands of Sufism with the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis. The exhibition runs Feb. 5 - March 10 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies. Read more
Gwen Thompkins, East Africa Correspondent for National Public Radio, will present the 2009 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on February 5, 2009. Read more
