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Harvard brought a floodgate of opportunities to teach, join jury panels and to report on corruption that would not have come my way in Zimbabwe. Now, I have the chance to spread the truth into many, many countries. — Geoffrey Nyarota, NF ‘04

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Three Nieman Fellows win George Polk Awards

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Three Nieman alumni have won George Polk Awards in Journalism for their work in 2012:
- As a Sky News correspondent reporting for CBS News, Holly Williams, NF ’08, and cameraman Andrew Portch won the Polk Award for Television News Reporting for their coverage of Chinese human rights campaigner Chen Guangcheng.
- Hannah Allam, NF ’09, a member of the team of McClatchy Newspapers correspondents covering the civil war in Syria, shares the George Polk Award for War Reporting for the series “Inside Syria.”
- Frontline producer Michael Kirk, NF ’80, and correspondent Martin Smith won the Polk Award for Documentary Television Reporting for “Money, Power and Wall Street,” a four-part investigation into the global financial crisis.
The Polk Awards will be presented in New York on April 11, 2013. This year’s George Polk Seminar, “A Revolution Betrayed: Covering Corruption and Human Rights in China,” will feature Holly Williams and David Barboza of The New York Times. Learn more »

Class of 2008

First row (from left): Siew Ying Leu, Jenifer McKim, Gaiutra Bahadar, Mary Newsom, James Causey, Bob Giles (Curator), Christine Gorman, Fernando Rodrigues, Olivera Perkins, Abdul Razzaq al-Saiedi.

Second row: James Baxter, Joan Martelli, Simon Wilson, Holly Williams, Dean Miller, Ayelet Bechar, Andrew Meldrum, Dan Vergano, Alicia Anstead, Andres Cavalier.

Third row: Ran An, Kate Galbraith, Stuart Watson, Andrew Quinn, Melanie Gosling, Joshua Benton, Michael Anti, Raul Penaranda, Walter Ray Watson.

Not pictured: Aboubakr Jamaï.