CELEBRATING - Nieman Foundation - Harvard University

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July: Howard Simons, a 1959 Nieman Fellow,
becomes curator.
The Nieman Watchdog Project is
created to encourage journalists to
monitor and hold accountable those who
exert power in all aspects of public life.
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May: The Nieman Foundation
for Journalism celebrates its
golden anniversary.
Howard Simons steps down due
to illness; Bill Kovach, a 1989
fellow, becomes curator.
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The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project is created
to honor the best in American nonfiction
writing. Co-administered by the Nieman
Foundation and the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism, it presents
three annual awards in memory of author and
journalist Lukas, a 1969 Nieman Fellow.
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May: First Nieman Watchdog
Conference “How to Keep the
Watchdogs Watching” takes
place at Harvard.
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June: Bill Kovach steps down
as curator. In July, Bob Giles,
Nieman Class of 1966, is
appointed to succeed him.
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Fall: The Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism is created.
The first Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism draws
more than 800 journalists, editors and publishers to Cambridge.
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April: The Nieman Foundation’s
Taylor Family Award for Fairness
in Newspapers is presented for
the first time to Les Gura of The
Hartford Courant.
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May: The Nieman
Foundation dedicates
the new wing at Walter
Lippmann House in honor
of the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation.
Nieman Foundation and The Harvard
Crimson sponsor the first annual Georges
Conference on College Journalism. The
event honors Wall Street Journal reporter and
Harvard graduate Christopher J. Georges.
June: Dedication of the Robert C.
Maynard Suite at Lippmann
House, honoring the 1966
Nieman Fellow who co-founded
the Institute for Journalism
Education, which was later
renamed in his memory.
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The I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic
Independence is created.
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Nieman Foundation becomes the new
administrator of the Worth Bingham Prize
for Investigative Reporting.
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The Nieman
Journalism Lab is
launched to help
journalists excel in
the digital media age.
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