“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
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