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Henry Chu, a 2015 Nieman Fellow and veteran foreign correspondent and editor, has been named the new curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Chu will be the ninth curator in the foundation’s 88-year history and starts his new role on Aug. 3. Harvard announced his appointment on Wednesday following an extensive search process, during which the university sought feedback from…
In a move widely criticized by media watchdogs as an assault on press freedom, Peru’s Congress in June approved a report recommending criminal charges against prosecutors, state attorneys, and award-winning journalist Gustavo Gorriti, NF ’86, the founder and director of the Peruvian investigative media outlet IDL-Reporteros . The report from the parliamentary Muñante Commission criticized a 2019…
David Buell Sabapathy “D.B.S.” Jeyaraj, a political journalist and columnist who reported on events in Sri Lanka both on the ground and while living in exile in Canada for nearly four decades, died on May 17, 2026 , in Toronto at the age of 71. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1954, Jeyaraj studied at Jaffna College before beginning his journalism career at the Tamil-language newspaper Virakesari in…
Karol Szyndzielorz, a Polish journalist and 1978 Nieman Fellow who worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent, broadcaster, and newsroom leader, died on May 12, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in the Silesian town of Koźle, now a part of Poland, in 1936, Szyndzielorz earned his high school diploma in 1953 and went on to study journalism and political science at the University of Warsaw, specializing…
The family of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, a 2007 Nieman Fellow and highly regarded editor who is serving a seven-year prison sentence on espionage charges , reports that he is facing serious health issues. In a public statement , the family said that Dong, who had been in prison in Beijing since 2022, was transferred to Chaobai Prison in Tianjin in March and forced to perform long hours of hard…
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 22 talented journalists from around the world as members of the Class of 2027. The 89th cohort of Nieman Fellows comprises reporters, editors, investigative journalists, visual journalists, an audience engagement specialist, and a television correspondent, who collectively use text, audio, photography, video, and illustration to tell their stories.…
During a ceremony at Walter Lippmann House at Harvard University on April 30, 2026, the Nieman Foundation presented three of its annual journalism awards. The Winners The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence : Alfredo Corchado, executive editor of the Puente News Collaborative , in recognition of his work directing Puente’s innovative, partnership-driven approach to reporting along both…
Jack Bass, a leading newspaper reporter, academic, and author who covered the racial and political history of South Carolina and the American South, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on April 23, 2026, in Durham, N.C. He was 91. Bass was a widely respected chronicler of South Carolina politics and the Civil Rights Movement, first as a reporter and then as an author or co-author of…
Dave McNeely, a reporter, author, educator, and columnist who covered Texas politics and government for six decades, died on August 30, 2025 , in Austin, Texas. He was 85. Born on June 12, 1940, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he graduated from high school in College Station, Texas, in 1958 before earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and government at The University of Texas at Austin.…
Buses carrying detained immigrants depart from "Alligator Alcatraz" at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald “ Alligator Alcatraz ,” a four-part series by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times that exposed falsehoods spread by state and federal officials about Florida’s most controversial migrant detention center, is…
