GlobalPost.com, the news organization started by Charles Sennott, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, went live Jan. 12. The free Web site, supported by ads, went live Monday and will offer regular dispatches for an American audience to supplement coverage from news organizations still covering the world. GlobalPost also will sell stories to papers to run in print or online. Read more
John Walcott, now the Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, was awarded the first I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence on Oct. 7, for his Knight-Ridder bureau's coverage of the run-up to the war in Iraq. Read more
From reporters and biographers to bloggers and podcasters, the country’s top literary minds will gather this weekend to explore the challenges of professional storytelling in the multimedia age. Read more
Thomas Morgan III, Class of 1990, died Dec. 24. Morgan was the National Association of Black Journalist's eighth president and the first who was openly gay. Read more
John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC television and member of the Class of 1990, will join the political writing team for The New York Times. He will contribute political stories and analysis to various sections of the newspaper and NYTimes.com. Read more
Anthony Day, a longtime editorial page editor of The Los Angeles Times who helped transform the paper into a respected voice in national affairs, died Sunday at a hospice in Santa Fe, N.M. He was a member of the Class of 1967. Read more
Simon Wilson, editor of BBC's Middle East Bureau and member of the Class of 2008, writes in his blog how he "felt an enormous responsibility" when Alan Johnston was abducted on March 12 in Gaza City. Johnston was released after 114 days in captivity.
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Over the last 25 years, Albertina Sisulu, a 1985 Nieman Fellow and a bold articulator of black majority rule in South Africa, has been placed under house arrest, circumscribed by banning orders and, from time to time, jailed in solitary confinement. Then, days after her every step was trailed by the police as she traveled to Cape Town to visit her husband in prison, Mrs. Sisulu was granted her first passport. Unable to speak publicly in her own country, she is off to the United States. Read more
