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Jonathan Yardley, NF ’69, Retires

 Jonathan Yardley, a book critic for The Washington Post for 33 years, retired in December. After writing 3,000 reviews, he’s ready to read purely for pleasure. He is a 1969 Nieman…

2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellows named

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have selected two journalists as the 2014-2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation. The fellowship is a collaboration…

Journalists Louise Kiernan and Steve Almond to join Nieman’s narrative journalism program

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has hired Louise Kiernan to edit Nieman Storyboard, a website that showcases exceptional narrative journalism and explores the future of nonfiction storytelling, and Steve Almond…
2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards

Watch Videos of the Awards Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights and Ben Franklin’s sister, Jane Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink, journalist Adrienne Berard,…

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…

Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer-winning biographer: 1925-2014

Justin Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for his biographies of literary greats Mark Twain and Walt Whitman and muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, died on March 2 in Cambridge,…

Investigative reporter Pamela Colloff wins Louis M. Lyons Award

The current class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University has selected Pamela Colloff, an executive editor at the Texas Monthly, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award…

New Yorker Staff Writer Evan Osnos delivers the 2013 Morris Lecture

Evan Osnos, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, will deliver the 33rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on…

Mircea Cӑrtӑrescu, Romanian novelist and poet

Novelist and poet Mircea Cărtărescu came of age in Romania during the Communist regime of the 1970s, but even under democratic rule he has found his voice silenced by those in…

Jane Mayer wins the 2013 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

Investigative journalist, author and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has been selected as winner of the 2013 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at…