Niemans in the News

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Causey New Member of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Editorial Board

James Causey, Class of 2008, is one of two writers to recently join the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board. He will write on urban affairs once he finishes his year as a Nieman Fellow.

O. Ricardo Pimentel writes: "Causey brings an intimate knowledge of the community and the region that comes from being born, raised and educated in Milwaukee. He also brings a passion for addressing and solving some of the city's most nagging problems."
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Josh Benton's Investigations Into Cheating Receives Top Honors in Meyer Awards

Three major investigative reports that used social science research methods as key parts of their probes were named today as winners of the 2007 Philip Meyer Journalism Award.

Among them, The Dallas Morning News' Josh Benton — Class of 2008 — took top honors for “Faking the Grade” investigation.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

From Gaza to Harvard

BBC Producer Simon Wilson, Class of 2008, blogs from Cambridge about the crisis in the American newspaper industry, and the BBC's role in national and international news reporting.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Pakistan's Trusted Voice Muzzled by Musharraf

In early November, President Pervez Musharraf's government pulled the plug on Pakistan's most popular television news channel, independent Geo-TV. Bill Schiller, Class of 2006, talks to Pakistani Geo television reporter Absar Alam, Class of 2005, about what the TV channel did to incur the wrath of the Musharraf government.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Tully Center Honors Aboubakr Jamaï

He’s been sentenced to jail, saw his publication banned and was forced to leave his country. Moroccan Editor/Publisher Aboubakr Jamaï, Class of 2007-2008, is the first recipient of the Tully Center for Free Speech Award.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Philip Hilts Named New Fellowships Director

Philip J. Hilts, the author of six books and a prize-winning health and science reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post, has been named the third director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships. He was a member of the Nieman Class of 1985.

A long-time teacher of science journalism at Boston University, Hilts will also take over the current director’s teaching role in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Former Boston Globe writer, Frederick W. Pillsbury dies at 85

Frederick Pillsbury, Class of 1957, died Jan. 1 after a long illness. A Harvard Graduate, Pillsbury began his journalism career at the Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger as an editorial writer. He worked at the Boston Herald two separate times, and ended his career in retirement from the Boston Globe.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Kabral Receives Honourary Degree from University of Sierra Leone

The University of Sierra Leone has conferred on Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, Class of 1991 and Ghana's Ambassador to Cote D'Ivoire, a doctoral degree in Civil Laws. The degree was in recognition of Blay-Amihere's invaluable contribution to strengthening bilateral ties between Sierra Leone and Ghana and for his intellectual input to the mission of the University of Sierra Leone.
Monday, December 24, 2007

NABJ Loses Friend, Mentor and Advocate Thomas Morgan III

Thomas Morgan III, Class of 1990, died Dec. 24. Morgan was the National Association of Black Journalist's eighth president and the first who was openly gay.
Sunday, December 23, 2007

South Dakota Indian Journalist Gave Voices to a People Long Ignored

December 23, 2007 — Tim Giago, Class of 1991, was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in recent weeks — the first American Indian in a state with nine Indian reservations and 59,000 Indians.