Niemans in the News

Sunday, February 24, 2008

At Work with Malawi's Nurses

Christine Gorman, one of the 2008 recipients of the Nieman Fellowship for Global Health Reporting, outlines her four-month field research project. Her principal goals are to tell the story of what Malawi, a small, land-locked country in southeastern Africa, is doing to hold on to its nurses.
Friday, February 22, 2008

William Worthy Receives Lyons Award

The Nieman Foundation presented the 2008 Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to William Worthy, Class of 1957.
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Tim Golden of New York Times Delivers Morris Lecture at Nieman Foundation

Tim Golden, senior writer for The New York Times and member of the Class of 1996, presented the 2008 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation on February 21, 2008.

The Morris Lecture honors the foreign correspondent of the Los Angeles Times who was killed in February 1979 while covering the Iranian Revolution in Tehran. The lectureship was created in 1981 by family members, Harvard classmates and friends.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Two Nieman Fellows Receive ASNE Awards

The American Society of Newspaper Editors recently selected the winners of its annual awards for distinguished writing and photography, and two Nieman Fellows were among those selected.
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Iran's Winds of Change

Iason Athanasiadis, Class of 2008, comments on the new generation of Iranians: the children of the Revolution. "The domestic social situation is more dire than at almost any other time since the Revolution," he writes. "But many Iranians have moved on from the submissive first days of the Islamic Republic ... The new generation mounts actions of social insubordination that their parents only dreamed of."
Monday, February 11, 2008

ProPublica Appoints Journalism Advisory Board

Paul E. Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom producing journalism in the public interest, today announced the appointment of a journalism Advisory Board. Of the 12 board members, three are Nieman Fellows — Bob Caro, Class of '66; John Carroll, Class of '72; and Cynthia Tucker, Class of '89. Additionally, two of the new members — Greg Moore and Carroll — also serve on the Nieman Advisory Board.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Romney's Immigration Hypocrisy

Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s inconsistency on tough issues is widely recognized: He was pro-choice and then pro-life; he supported gun control and then he rejected it; he backed same sex marriage and then he opposed it. Yet, on the issue of immigration, he has not only been inconsistent, but revealed himself to be a hypocrite — and not just because he hired migrants without work permits to mow his lawn.

Read the entire op-ed — authored by Raul Penaranda, Class of 2008 — on The Harvard Crimson Web site
Friday, February 01, 2008

Ellen Goodman is 2008 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist from the Boston Globe and member of the Class of 1974, is the 2008 recipient of the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The award is given yearly to honor a columnist who exemplifies outstanding achievement in the tradition of Ernie Pyle, a beloved journalist and military correspondent during World War II.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Journalism and Public Information in Brazil

Fernando Rodrigues, Class of 2008, assembled a database with some 25,000 records of Brazilian politicians showing electoral information and personal data — including the list of personal assets of each politician who run for office in the three past general elections in Brazil.
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Cynthia Tucker to Present Keynote Address

Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and member of the Class of 1989, will serve as one of two featured speakers for the Seventh Annual Leadership Conference Celebrating Black History Month presented by Troy University and the City of Troy. Tucker is an editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated opinion columnist.