David Lamb, a 1981 Nieman Fellow and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Virginia. Lamb, who had been battling lymphoma and esophageal cancer, was 76. Lamb is perhaps best known … Read more
Howard Shapiro, NF ’81, has joined NewsWorks, the online production of WHYY, greater Philadelphia’s leading public media provider, as a theater critic. Before starting at NewsWorks in April, Shapiro spent more than 40 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he … Read more
Zhao Jinglun, a 1981 Nieman Fellow, died on January 24, 2015. He was 90. Jinglun, the first Nieman Fellow from mainland China, was a columnist for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and The China Internet Information Center, a news site sanctioned by … Read more
Rose Economou, and Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Columbia College professor, died Sunday, Oct. 2, at 65. A 1981 Nieman Fellow, Economou worked at the school for two decades after a distinguished career as a broadcast producer. Read more
"A year ago Thanksgiving Day, Gerald Boyd [Class of 1981] died, and New York magazine marks the occasion by backing up the hearse to his grave, digging him up and burying him again." Newsday's Les Payne comments on the Nov. 12 article "How Race Is Lived in America" on Boyd's rise and fall at the New York Times. Read more
North Carolina-born Doug Marlette, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1988 and was a member of the Class of 1981, died Tuesday morning in a single-car accident in northwest Mississippi. He was 57. Read more
