Tag: Nieman Foundation

  • Nation & World

    Nieman recognizes Charlotte Observer with Taylor Family Award

    For its coverage of health and safety violations in the poultry industry “The Cruelest Cuts,” the Charlotte Observer has won the 2008 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, and will be presented a $10,000 prize by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on April 16, 2009.

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    Detroit Free Press recognized with Worth Bingham Prize

    For their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis,” Detroit Free Press staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, in addition to their colleagues, are the winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

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  • Nation & World

    Journalist forum focuses on climate change, cities

    Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a Cambridge, Mass.-based research foundation, recently brought together 45 print, radio, and television journalists from across the country to discuss the emerging connection between climate change and cities.

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    Columbia, Nieman name Lukas Prize Project Awards

    The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University have announced this year’s winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards. The awards, established in 1998, recognize excellence in nonfiction books that exemplify the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the distinguished work…

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    Nieman Foundation to administer Bingham Prize for journalism

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has announced that it will oversee the management of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The annual award honors outstanding newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being poorly served.

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    Nieman Foundation announces I.F. Stone Award

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is establishing an award that recognizes journalistic independence and honors the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone. The I.F. Stone Medal will be presented annually to a journalist whose work captures the spirit of “independence, integrity, courage, and indefatigability” that characterized “I.F. Stone’s Weekly,” published from 1953…

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    Nieman Foundation to honor Worthy for ‘courage and independence

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to William Worthy on Feb. 22.

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    Golden to deliver Morris Lecture at Nieman

    Tim Golden, senior writer for The New York Times, will present the 2008 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Feb. 21, 2008.

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