Chris Cobler, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, recently received the Editorial Achievement Award from the Texas Daily Newspaper Association at its annual convention. The award recognizes "courage and commitment to the newsroom and leadership in the community in advocating and pursuing openness and accessibility to government." Cobler also was recently elected to the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas board of directors. Read more
GlobalPost.com, the news organization started by Charles Sennott, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, went live Jan. 12. The free Web site, supported by ads, went live Monday and will offer regular dispatches for an American audience to supplement coverage from news organizations still covering the world. GlobalPost also will sell stories to papers to run in print or online. Read more
David Heath, a 2006 Nieman Fellow, returns to Exposé and Bill Moyers Journal. Heath, and fellow Seattle Times reporter Christine Willmsen, unearth at least 155 hidden earmarks worth $3.5 billion in the 2008 defense bill and find that in many cases, earmarks are actually more secretive than they once were. Read more
David Heath and Seattle Times colleague Hal Bernton won the 2008 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress for their multi-platform series “The Favor Factory.” The Times series linked earmarked votes by Seattle-area lawmakers to campaign contributions. Heath is a member of the Class of 2006. Read more
The Victoria Advocate recently won a variety of honors from the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA): first place for its front page; first place for best use of multimedia; second place in the Carmage Walls Commentary Award; and third place for best local story. Read more
Five Nieman Fellows were among the 2008 recipients of the National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Awards. The annual awards recognize exemplary coverage of the African and African-American experience by the nation’s print and electronic media. Read more
Seattle Times investigative reporter David Heath, Class of 2006, and colleague Hal Bernton have won the national Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting for their series "The Favor Factory." Read more
The Society of Professional Journalists announced Monday, April 14, the recipients of the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism. Five Nieman alumni were among this year's winners, who were chosen from more than 1,000 entries in 48 categories including print, radio, television and online. Read more
The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott, Class of 2006, will be among a group of veteran foreign correspondents who will be joining Global News Enterprises LLC, the first US-based Web site devoted exclusively to international news, which is set to launch early next year. Read more
In early November, President Pervez Musharraf's government pulled the plug on Pakistan's most popular television news channel, independent Geo-TV. Bill Schiller, Class of 2006, talks to Pakistani Geo television reporter Absar Alam, Class of 2005, about what the TV channel did to incur the wrath of the Musharraf government. Read more
