Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, Nieman’s first Cuban Fellow and a member of the class of 2015, has launched Periodismo de Barrio a new website that focuses on the impact of natural disasters on local communities. She worked on developing plans for … Read more
Investigative journalist and digital media strategist Miguel Paz, a 2015 Nieman-Berkman Fellow, has joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York as a distinguished lecturer specializing in data journalism and multimedia storytelling. A native of Chile, Paz … Read more
Celeste LeCompte, NF ’15, has been appointed director of business development at ProPublica. In this newly created position, she will work to enhance the organization’s effectiveness and sustainability, lead efforts to generate new earned revenues, forge new business partnerships and … Read more
Denise-Marie Ordway has joined Journalist’s Resource as a research reporter and editor. An online project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the site curates scholarly studies and reports. Previously, Ordway covered education for the Orlando Sentinel in Florida … Read more
Laurie Penny has been named a 2015 Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she will write and speak about digital rights, social justice, technology, and culture. Penny is a contributing editor at New Statesman … Read more
Farnaz Fassihi The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is deeply concerned about claims being published by Iranian media, accusing journalist Farnaz Fassihi of spying. These statements are … Read more
Nabil Wakim, a 2015 Nieman Fellow, has been named the new director of editorial innovation at Le Monde. Currently the French newspaper’s digital editor-in-chief, he is scheduled start in the new position this September. Read more
Jason Grotto, a 2015 Nieman Fellow, received a 2015 Gerald Loeb Award, with his Chicago Tribune colleague Heather Gillers for their series “Borrowing Trouble.” The reports exposed the risky bond deals pursued by Chicago Public Schools, … Read more
David Jiménez, NF ’15, has been named editor-in-chief of El Mundo, Spain’s second-largest daily newspaper. A former Asia bureau chief for the paper, he has covered stories from the nuclear disaster at … Read more
David Jiménez’s “Children of the Monsoon,” translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg, has been published by Autumn Hill Books. This collection of his literary journalism draws on his years of reporting about children as the Asia bureau chief for El … Read more
