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With society potentially poised to turn the corner on mass incarceration, will news organizations rise to the challenge and increase their coverage? Or do limited resources and a lack of…

"Muckraking Goes Global: The Future of Cross-Border Investigative Journalism" examines the achievements and challenges of investigative journalists reporting stories on subjects of global interest and impact. Journalists from Latin America,…

How the Nieman Foundation and Harvard continue to “educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism”—and why that matters

The untold story of Agnes Wahl Nieman, her will, and the creation of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

As I prepared to begin my tour as curator during the summer of 2000, I worked at framing a vision of how the Nieman Foundation might build on its legacy…

The Nieman Fellowship’s evolution from “dubious experiment” to transformative experience

I can’t tell you how my drawing class in the monastery on Memorial Drive or James Wood’s close reading of English novelist Henry Green or Diana Eck’s lecture on Gandhi…

The shape and content of my decade as curator was determined by unexpected events. Howie Simons’s time as curator was cut drastically short by his death. The dissolution of the…

How two artists created new portraits of the Nieman Foundation's benefactor

Having launched and operated a number of cable television channels in Hungary, Horvát was named the nation’s ambassador to Cuba in 2006 In 1975, Paul Ipper, the New York correspondent…