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Nieman Foundation announces 2014 Visiting Fellows

The Nieman Foundation has selected five journalists as Visiting Fellows for the 2014 calendar year. Each will spend a short period of time at Harvard University to work on a…
January 13, 2014

Update: Paul Salopek, NF ’12, and his trek across the globe

2012 Nieman Visiting Fellow Paul Salopek and his epic 21,000-mile walk around the world are the focus of National Geographic’s December 2013 cover story. In To Walk the World, the…
November 27, 2013

Errol Morris, Filmmaker

Before coming to the Nieman Foundation on November 13, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tweeted that he was going to discuss “the New New Journalism: Speaking Power to Truth,” by which he meant…
November 13, 2013

Nieman celebrates 75 years of fellowship

More than 400 Nieman alumni and affiliates from around the world gathered in Cambridge Sept. 27-29 to celebrate the Nieman Foundation's 75th anniversary. Guests met with leading thinkers from Harvard…
September 30, 2013

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, NF ’88, speaks at Harvard

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a Nieman in the class of 1988, delivered a public address at the Kennedy Forum at Harvard’s Institute of Politics on Sept. 25, covering a…
September 26, 2013

Niemans help create independent news association for Latin America

Nieman fellows Juanita León, NF’07 and director of La Silla Vacía in Colombia, and Graciela Mochkofsky, NF’09, who together with husband Gabriel Pasquini runs el puercoespín in Argentina, have joined…
June 21, 2013

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
Journalism and the Boston Marathon Bombings

Journalism and the Boston Marathon Bombings

Timing, Trust, and Credibility in the Age of Twitter The Boston Marathon bombings may well have been America’s first fully interactive national tragedy. During a roundtable conversation on Wednesday, May…
May 3, 2013

Social Media and the Boston Bombings

In a breaking news situation, journalists get an adrenaline rush. There is a palpable eagerness to get the scoop, to be the first to bring the story to the public.…
April 17, 2013

Niemans Cover the Boston Marathon Bombs

The explosions at the Boston Marathon made front-page news around the world, with Líberation in Paris, El País in Madrid, and The Jerusalem Post in Israel carrying coverage from 2013…
April 16, 2013