Please join us for this free in-person event 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 9, 2025 Venue change: Harvard Art Museums Room: Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St. (Enter via Broadway entrance, near corner of Broadway and Prescott) Cambridge, Mass. 02138 --- Art critics are often at the center of society’s most relevant conversations. They challenge us with new ideas and experiences, uncover artworks worthy of our collective attention, and write about shifts in the culture at large. I...| Nieman Foundation
Karl Schoenberger, a 1995 Nieman Fellow and an award-winning journalist, writer, author, died on April 8, 2025, in El Cerrito, California, following complications from a stroke. He was 71. During his 25-year journalism career, Schoenberger worked in Tokyo for the Los Angeles Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press, and in the United States for the Hartford Courant and the San Jose Mercury News/Knight Ridder. He also covered Asia as a roving Pacific Rim reporter for ...| Nieman Foundation
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has named Samantha Henry editor of Nieman Reports, one of the oldest and most respected publications covering the news industry. Established in 1947 and published both online and in print, Nieman Reports provides in-depth news and analysis of important issues, opportunities and challenges facing journalists and newsrooms around the world today. In her role as editor, Henry is responsible for directing an international network of contributi...| Nieman Foundation
Rod Nordland, a foreign correspondent who reported from more than 150 countries for The New York Times, Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer, died on June 18, 2025, after a lengthy battle with glioblastoma. He was 75. A 1989 Nieman Fellow, Nordland covered wars, conflict zones and world leaders as well as the human stories behind the news from postings in Bangkok, Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo, Rome, Sarajevo, San Salvador, Islamabad, London, Kabul and beyond. After he was diagnosed with gliobl...| Nieman Foundation
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the New York-based Endeavor Foundation Inc. are pleased to announce the launch of the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Established with a generous $1.5 million endowment gift from the Endeavor Foundation, the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship Fund will support journalists selected for the Nieman program who work in or are from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The fund may additionally be used to finance journalism programming and initiative...| Nieman Foundation
Renee Ferguson, the first Black woman to work as an investigative reporter on television in Chicago, died in hospice care on June 6, 2025, at the age of 75. She was a Nieman Fellow in the class of 2007 at Harvard University. Ferguson spent more than 25 years reporting for the Chicago television stations WMAQ-TV/NBC 5 Chicago and WBBM-Ch. 2. She also was a longtime member of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. Her investigations served to shine a lig...| Nieman Foundation
Henry Chu has been named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Currently Nieman’s deputy curator, Chu will start his new role when Curator Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years as head of the foundation. Chu has played a key role at Nieman, strengthening the foundation’s publications, overseeing an extensive program of seminars and workshops and helping to select and guide the Nieman Fellows, accomplished journalists from around ...| Nieman Foundation
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 22 accomplished journalists from around the world as members of the class of 2026. The new cohort, representing nine countries, includes reporters, editors, producers, podcasters, multimedia journalists, a news anchor, columnist, audience development manager and data editor. The fellows work for legacy newsrooms, digital outlets, national television and radio stations, investigative collaboratives and as independent journalists. Announcin...| Nieman Foundation
During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House at Harvard University on May 2, 2025, the Nieman Foundation presented three of its annual journalism awards. The Winners The I..F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence: Mark Trahant, journalist, author and journalism educator. Past editor of ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) The Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and The Taylor Award for Fairness in Journalism: ProPublica for the skillfully reported series “Life of the Mother,...| Nieman Foundation
ProPublica’s skillfully reported series “Life of the Mother,” which reveals how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths, is the winner of the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The series has also been selected for the Nieman Foundation’s 2024 Taylor Award for Fairness in Journalism. ProPublica reporters Kavitha Surana, […]| Nieman Foundation
Fellows in the class of 2025 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism have chosen +972 Magazine, an independent, nonprofit news organization run by a binational team of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, for this year’s Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. In making their selection, the Nieman Fellows recognized +972 Magazine — whose mission is to […]| Nieman Foundation
