The 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards were presented at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on May 10, 2016. The awards honor the best in American nonfiction writing and are co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation. Read more
Gaiutra Bahadur, NF ’08, has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Fellow at the Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. She will spend the 2016-2017 academic year at the Harvard … Read more
Join us for a conversation with best-selling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean. She’ll speak with 2016 Nieman Fellow Kim Tingley, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, about the craft of narrative nonfiction. Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the three winners and the three … Read more
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2016 shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards — the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize … Read more
The popular narrative writers’ guide Telling True Stories has been translated into Chinese to serve the growing number of Chinese journalists practicing longform narrative storytelling. Announcing the news, Nieman curator Ann Marie Lipinski said “The translation was a response to … Read more
As part of inaugural HUBweek events in Boston, the Nieman Foundation hosted a special evening of storytelling in historic Faneuil Hall on Oct. 6. “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation” featured seven of the area’s best journalists, authors and innovators who offered behind-the-scene perspectives on stories that originated in Boston and reverberated around the world. Read more
Julius Duscha, a 1956 Nieman Fellow and the first assistant director of Stanford’s journalism fellowship program, passed away in San Francisco on July 2, 2015 at the age of 90. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1924, Duscha began … Read more
The recipients of the 2015 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards include groundbreaking reporting on bacha posh, the practice of girls raised as boys in Afghanistan, by Jenny Nordberg; a revealing account of Abraham Lincoln’s complex relationship with the press by Harold Holzer; and an eye-opening work by Dan Egan investigating how invasive species have threatened the existence of the Great Lakes. Read more
