"Nieman Notes" is the Nieman Foundation's version of "Class Notes." Published in the back of each issue of Nieman Reports, this section lists updates on...

The Overseas Press Club (OPC) announced the recipients of their 2008 awards at their annual dinner in April in New York City. Dexter Filkins ,...

David Jackson received a 2009 Studs Terkel Community Media Award, presented at a 20th anniversary party to “… celebrate the talent in our ever-changing media...

Andrea McCarren ’s “Project Immigration” for WJLA-TV was named a regional winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary ( www.wjla.com/projectimmigration ). McCarren...

Juanita Léon has created the investigative political blog La Silla Vacía (The Empty Seat), dedicated to scrutinizing politicians and power in Colombia. Léon, with Colombia’s...

Dexter Filkins received the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction for “The Forever War,” his reporting on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jeb Sharp won a 2009 Dart Award for Excellence in Trauma Coverage for her five-part investigative radio series, “Rape as a Weapon of War.” The...

Mary C. Curtis now writes for AOL’s MediaGlow, which runs 70 online media properties. Curtis was one of 22 people hired for its new site,...

Chris Cobler received the first Editorial Achievement Award from the Texas Daily Newspaper Association at its annual conference in March. The award recognizes “courage and...

Amy Ellis Nutt is the recipient of the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award in Feature Writing (circulation of 100,000 or greater) and was a finalist...

Ju-Don Marshall Roberts was named executive editor and senior vice president of Beliefnet, a spirituality support Web site owned by News Corporation. Roberts will oversee...

Jodi Rave ended her newspaper career on May 4th to work on in-depth projects, including a book about Elouise Cobell and the Indian trust fund...

Eugene Robinson , NF ’88 and a columnist for The Washington Post, received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for “his eloquent columns on the...

Ronnie Ramos is the managing director of new media strategies and content development for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Ramon, who began this job in...

Kirstin Downey ’s book, “The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience,” was published...

Ken Armstrong won The George Polk Award, The Michael Kelly Award, and The Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for a series he did with...

Christine Chinlund has been named deputy managing editor for news operations at The Boston Globe, running the newsroom at night. She will also be the...

Charles Onyango-Obbo writes: “The Nation Media Group recently created an Africa Media Division to pursue our expansion and to launch a pan-Africa news magazine, an...

Cynthia Tucker will become a political columnist based in Washington, D.C. for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this summer, with her columns appearing twice a week in...

Joseph Thloloe received the Alan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achiever Award at the eighth annual Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards in Johannesburg on May 6th in recognition...

William Dietrich gave a talk and read from his novel, “The Dakota Cipher,” at The Reader’s Cove bookstore on May 7th, hosted by Friends of...

Nina Bernstein , a reporter for The New York Times, has received the 2009 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism for “Deaths in Immigrant Detention.” The...

Callie Crossley received an honorary degree at Cambridge College’s 38th commencement ceremony in June. The Doctor of Humane Letters was awarded to Crossley, the Nieman...

R. Gregory Nokes ’s book, “Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon,” will be published by Oregon State University Press in October. The book...

E. Hugh Morris died on June 1st in Frankfort, Kentucky at 94. Morris began working at The Courier-Journal in 1937, where he held a variety...