James C. Thomson, former Nieman Foundation curator, East-Asia historian and key figure in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died Sunday at Newton-Wellesley Hospital of cardiac arrest after a brief illness. He was 70. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received $420,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide fellowships for journalists of accomplishment and promise from Latin America. Read more
Russell Mills, who was fired as publisher of the Ottawa Citizen following publication of a story critical of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and an editorial calling for his resignation, has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Read more
An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University, who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the Taylor family, carries a $10,000 prize. Read more
The Committee to Protect Journalists has been selected by Harvard University's Nieman Fellows to receive the 2002 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
Annys Shin, a senior writer for the Washington City Paper, has been awarded the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship for in-depth reporting to cover the impact of the release of floods of prisoners just now finishing their mandatory sentences. Read more
Four Harvard College sophomores will investigate the status of women at Harvard University through fellowships awarded by The Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. The four women are all members of The Harvard Crimson staff. Read more
Text of speech delivered by Bob Giles, Nieman Foundation curator, at the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communication on October 19, 2001. Read more