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Sheri Fink, Jill Lepore and Adrienne Berard Are Named Winners of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University today announced the three winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards.Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has won…
April 9, 2014
Remembering AP Photographer Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

Remembering AP Photographer Anja Niedringhaus, NF ’07

AP photographer and 2007 Nieman Fellow Anja Niedringhaus was shot and killed April 4 by an Afghan police officer while covering the run-up to the elections. In this photo essay…
April 4, 2014

Nieman Fellows selected for class of 2014

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 24 journalists as members of the 76th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. The group includes reporters, editors, columnists, digital media leaders…
May 16, 2013

Shooting Ghosts

A conversation with Reuters photojournalist and 2013 Nieman Fellow Finbarr O’Reilly and retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Thomas James Brennan about their journey through wars, trauma, loss and recovery After…
April 1, 2013

New York Times Correspondent C.J. Chivers to deliver Morris Lecture

C. J. Chivers, senior writer for The New York Times, will deliver the 32nd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov.…
November 21, 2012

The Inestimable Value of an Afghan Reporter

Waheed Abdul Wafa, NF ’11, was The New York Times’s longest-serving reporter in Afghanistan. Now he has left journalism to become executive director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University.
November 8, 2011

Nieman Foundation announces Class of 2012

The Nieman Foundation has selected 24 journalists from the United States and abroad to become the 74th class of Nieman Fellows. Announcing the class, Nieman Foundation curator Bob Giles said…
May 25, 2011

Dexter Filkins among winners of Polk Awards

Dexter Filkins, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, is one of 13 George Polk Award winners for 2010. For behind-the-scenes reports on the war in Afghanistan, enemy incursions from Pakistan and the…
March 1, 2011

Dexter Filkins to deliver the 2011 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture

Veteran war correspondent Dexter Filkins will deliver the 30th annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation on Thursday, February 3, 2011. “Dexter has earned a place…
January 31, 2011

From Watergate to WikiLeaks: Journalism and Secrecy in the New Media Age

The WikiLeaks Iraq and Afghanistan war logs—and now the roll out of diplomatic cables—are having an enormous impact on journalism. On December 16, 2010, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism convened…
December 16, 2010