“I have been a very lucky guy in so many ways, certainly in my career,” 1964 Nieman Fellow Morton Mintz said recently from his home in Washington, D.C. “I loved being a reporter, starting at The Michigan Daily when I … Read more
Nieman Fellows from the class of 1977 remember their friend Cassandra Tate, an accomplished journalist, historian and author who died on June 10, 2021. Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent for “PBS NewsHour” Since she was a superlative … Read more
Cassandra Tate, a 1977 Nieman Fellow, died on June 10, 2021, at her home in Seattle, Washington, after a lengthy battle with fallopian tube cancer. A journalist, historian and author, Tate was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, grew up … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and the two finalists of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting of … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2021 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize. The Lukas … Read more
Martin Gehlen, NF ’92, a respected Middle East expert and correspondent from Germany died in Tunis on February 6, 2021. His classmate Melissa Ludtke remembers his life and work. Melissa Ludtke, NF ’92 Martin Gehlen dedicated his life to … Read more
Robert Collins “R.C.” Smith, a journalist, education advocate, and a 1961 Nieman Fellow, died December 30, 2020, in Jamestown, North Carolina. He was 93. Smith, who worked for several newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina over the … Read more
Deb Price, 62, died in Hong Kong on November 20, 2020 after a long battle with an autoimmune lung disease. The many news outlets she had worked for include The Detroit News, The Washington Post, The … Read more
Deb Price, a 2011 Nieman Fellow whose column on gay issues was the first to be nationally syndicated in mainstream newspapers, died in Hong Kong on November 20 due to complications from interstitial pneumonitis, after a … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and the two finalists of the 2020 Lukas Prize Project Awards. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting of the J. Read more
