Craig Welch, NF ’07, and Michael Kirk, NF ’80, have received Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards. The duPont awards, announced in December, recognize excellence in broadcast, documentary, and digital journalism, with a special emphasis on serving the public. Welch was … Read more
Three Nieman alumni have won George Polk Awards in Journalism for their work in 2012: Holly Williams, NF ’08, Hannah Allam, NF ’09, and Michael Kirk, NF ’80. Read more
Documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk, NF ’80, who produced 60 Frontline investigations and won two Peabody awards, was selected to receive the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s First Amendment Award at its conference in August. Former New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, will be given the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award from the Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University in Boston this month. Read more
This Tuesday night, PBS' FRONTLINE presents an encore broadcast of "Inside the Meltdown." First broadcast in February, producer Michael Kirk — a 1980 Nieman Fellow — investigates how the economy went so bad so fast, and why emergency actions taken by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and others,vfailed to prevent it. Read more