Katie King — a Nieman Foundation advisory board member and a 1994 Nieman Fellow — will be inducted to the University of Washingon Communication Alumni Hall of Fame Oct. 16. King is a writer, editor, literary translator and digital media executive whose 20 plus-year career includes working as a foreign correspondent, documentary producer, digital story-teller, business leader and journalism professor. Read more
Melanie Sill, the former editor of The Sacramento Bee and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., will be the new executive editor of KPCC's Southern California Public Radio. Sill is a 1994 Nieman Fellow. Read more » Read more
Sam Fulwood, a 1994 Nieman Fellow and Nieman Foundation Advisory Board member, is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States. The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. Read more
“Forgotten Ellis Island” — a documentary film directed by Lorie Conway, a 1994 Nieman Fellow — will be broadcast nationally on PBS on Feb. 2, at 10 pm ET. Narrated by Elliott Gould, it is the first film to be produced about the lost history of the immigrant hospital that was once located on Ellis Island. Read more
Melanie Sill, Class of 1994 and executive editor and senior vice president of The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer has been named to the same position for The Sacramento Bee. Read more
Lorie Conway, Class of 1994 and Vice President of the Nieman Advisory Board, is now on tour with her book and film, Forgotten Ellis Island – The Extraordinary Story of America’s Immigrant Hospital. Lorie hosted the world premiere of the documentary in the Great Hall at Ellis Island on Monday, October 22. Read more
Christina Lamb — Class of 1994 — was one of only two foreigners on board Benazir Bhutto's bus when it was bombed on October 18 upon her return to Pakistan. Friends with the former prime minister for more than 20 years, Lamb describes her experience on the night of Pakistan’s most deadly bomb. Read more
