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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

Nieman Foundation announces Nieman Fellows in Class of 2011

The Nieman Foundation has selected 25 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio,…
May 26, 2010

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Raquel Rutledge wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Cashing in on Kids”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Raquel Rutledge is winner of the 2009 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for her watchdog series “Cashing in on Kids.” In reports published over the…
February 19, 2010

New York Times Reporter David Rohde Delivers the 2010 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture

New York Times correspondent David Rohde delivered the 29th annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture on February 4, 2010. Each year, the Morris Lecture honors an American overseas correspondent…
January 27, 2010
2009 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

2009 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism

The journalists of Afghanistan face grave danger on the job. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented the death of six Afghan media workers inside Afghanistan in the last three…
November 17, 2009

Slain Sri Lankan Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and Afghan Journalists to Receive Louis M. Lyons Award

The Nieman Foundation will present the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to slain Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the journalists of Afghanistan on…
November 13, 2009

Veteran Reporter Jon Alpert Wins the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

The Nieman Foundation will present the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to Jon Alpert. An investigative reporter, producer and documentary filmmaker whose career has spanned more than 35…
August 19, 2009

The National Book Critics Circle honors Filkins’ “The Forever War”

"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…
March 13, 2009

Fellow speaks on “Rethinking the Conflicts in the Middle East”

Scheherezade Faramarzi, a reporter for the Associated Press in Lebanon and member of the Class of 2009, was a guest speaker at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on Tuesday,…
December 12, 2008
2008 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

2008 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Videos Award Presentation and John Walcott Speech Panel Discussion Speech Transcript John Walcott, now the Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, was awarded the first I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic…
October 7, 2008