Events

During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House at Harvard University on May 3, 2024, the Nieman Foundation presented three of its annual journalism awards to the 2024 winners and finalists. The 2024 Winners: The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Jerry Mitchell, director and co-founder of the … Read more

The Nieman Foundation celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2023 with an inspiring and thought-provoking reunion weekend at the end of October. More than 400 guests from 40 … Read more

During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House at Harvard University on May 5, 2023, the Nieman Foundation presented three of its annual journalism awards to the 2023 winners and finalists. Award recipients from the three previous years, who had been unable to receive their certificates in person due to COVID-19 … Read more

Date: Thursday, March 5, 2020 Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m. Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Admission: This event is free and open to the public. Admittance is first come, first seated. Join us to hear from Maria Ressa, a leading advocate for a free press and … Read more

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2020 at Harvard University presented the 2020 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) on January 27. CPI’s executive director Carla Minet accepted the award … Read more

On November 14–16, 2019, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted "Covering Climate Change," an intensive training workshop for journalists on covering climate change and related issues. Read more

The 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards were presented at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on May 7, 2019. The awards honor the best in American nonfiction writing and are co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation. The project … Read more

During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House on May 1, 2019, the Nieman Foundation honored several investigative journalists and their work by presenting three of the foundation’s annual journalism awards: The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Veteran journalists Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, selected in recognition of … Read more

Avi Loeb, chairman of the Harvard astronomy department and the author of hundreds of scientific papers, has been recognized for his work but nothing compares to the media attention he received for suggesting in 2018 that there may be an alien probe in our solar system. Loeb talked to fellows … Read more

Nieman Fellows in the class of 2019 at Harvard University have selected Marisa Kwiatkowski, an investigative reporter at The Indianapolis Star, for the 2019 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more