Niemans in the News

  1. Friday, November 13, 2009
    Charlotte Paper Names Stodghill Business Columnist

    Ron Stodghill, a former business journalist with BusinessWeek, Time and The New York Times, has been named a business columnist for the Charlotte Observer. Stodghill is a 2001 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

  2. Monday, November 09, 2009
    Former Gainesville Times editor Bob Campbell dies

    Former longtime Gainesville Times editor Bob Campbell died Sunday, Nov. 8. Campbell—a Navy veteran of World War II and a 1957 Nieman Fellow—worked at The Times from 1971 to 1986, spending the last two years as editorial page editor. He was 88. Read more »

  3. Wednesday, October 21, 2009
    Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Nelson dies

    Jack Nelson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who first made his name covering the civil rights movement, died Wednesday, Oct. 22. For more than two decades, he ran the Los Angeles Times’ bureau in the capital, propelling it to the heights of post-Watergate journalism and putting what had once been a regional paper on the same plane with other top national news organizations. Nelson—a 1962 Nieman Fellow—was 80. Read more »

  4. Wednesday, October 14, 2009
    Bryan Monroe Joins J-School at Northwestern

    Veteran newsroom leader and media commentator Bryan Monroe—a 2003 Nieman Fellow—joins the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University as a visiting professor. Read more »

  5. Wednesday, September 30, 2009
    Olivera Perkins a recipient of the 2009 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism

    Olivera Perkins, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a business reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has won the 2009 NABJ-Knowledge@Wharton Award. The awards provide journalists with a scholarship to attend the prestigious Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Perkins is a 2008 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

  6. Thursday, September 24, 2009
    Ken Armstrong Wins John Chancellor Award

    Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong has won a major national award for his more than 20-year reporting career. Armstrong, the recipient of the 2009 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, was selected for the depth and impact of his coverage of the criminal-justice system over his career. Armstrong is a 2001 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

  7. Wednesday, September 09, 2009
    Alfredo Corchado Gets UTEP Alumni Award

    Reporter Alfredo Corchado, the Mexico Bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, received the 2009 Gold Nugget Award from the University of Texas at El Paso's College of Liberal Arts. Corchado is a 2009 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

  8. Wednesday, September 02, 2009
    Goodbye Without Leaving

    Newspaper editor Lorie Hearn converts her investigative team into a nonprofit—with her former paper, San Diego Union-Tribune, as partner and chief benefactor. Hearn is a 1995 Nieman Fellow. Learn more »

  9. Friday, August 14, 2009
    Veteran journalist D.P. Kumar dies

    D.P. Kumar, former Resident Editor of The Statesman and former Political Editor for Newstime, died Sunday, Aug. 9. He was a 1966 Nieman Fellow. Read more »

  10. Thursday, August 06, 2009
    Roberta Baskin Joins HHS as Adviser

    Former television reporter Roberta Baskin, a 2002 Nieman Fellow, will join the Department of Health and Human Service's office of inspector general as a senior communications adviser. She will join the office for one year to help drum up media attention for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, an HHS-Justice Department task force aimed at combating Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Read more »

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