2 #Florida newspapers, the @miamiherald.com & @tampabaytimes.bsky.social, win the 2025 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism for their stories on Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp. nieman.harvard.edu/alligator-al... via @niemanfoundation.bsky.social
Finalists for the 2025 Taylor Award are “Exposed and Expendable,” about the health risks faced by firefighters by @nytimes.com reporter Hannah Dreier, and “On the Hook,” a @ctmirror.org/@propublica.org series about unscrupulous vehicle-towing practices in Connecticut. Congratulations to all!
“Alligator Alcatraz” by @miamiherald.com/@tampabaytimes.bsky.social has won the 2025 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. The series debunked misinformation about Florida’s controversial migrant detention center & revealed the names of those held there.
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Congratulations to Hannah Dreier, winner of the 2025 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for her @nytimes.com series “Exposed and Expendable,” which revealed the dangers faced by firefighters who work without masks and has led to many vital reforms.
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Alfredo Corchado, ex. editor of the Puente News Collaborative, wins the 2026 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, honoring his work directing Puente’s innovative approach to reporting along the U.S-Mexico border. Congratulations! @ajcorchado.bsky.social nieman.harvard.edu/alfredo-corc...
Over at @niemanstoryboard.org, Emilia Wisniewski shares some takeaways from my @powerofnarrative.bsky.social conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social
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“We determined the need, we raised the funds, we found the properties, and we are teaching young journalists what a circuit breaker is.”
Meta’s Oversight Board, which reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for fact-checking.
so excited that 2 @niemanlab.org stories are Mirror Award finalists:
@hanaatameez.bsky.social's "From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline, and @neeldhanesha.com's "How tribal radio stations are preparing for a future without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting"
After two years of planning, there’s finally a date. Well, okay, a month: May. That’s when the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, will drop its paywall.
🔗: www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/the-nonprofit-sa...
🏅 Nominations are now open for the 2026 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, honoring a reporter with courage, character and integrity, and named for a pioneer in television news.
With @columbiajournalism.bsky.social, we’re pleased to announce the 2026 #LukasPrizes, honoring exceptional nonfiction book writing. Congratulations to winners/finalists @zephoria.bsky.social, Karim Zidan, Jeff Hobbs, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @therichbenjamin.bsky.social and Siddharth Kara.
🏆 Columbia Journalism School and the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social at @harvard.edu have announced the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners and finalists, honoring exceptional nonfiction writing on history, politics and social issues.
Now more than ever, journalists need to adopt strong digital security measures to protect their work, their sources, and themselves.
🔗: nieman.harvard.edu/digital-security-resourc...
France's independent press is growing fast.
Alternative media startups see themselves as a bulwark against billionaires and the far right. Can they survive?
🔗: niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-media...
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @irincarmon.bsky.social annotates a chapter from her book "Unbearable," plus @shorensteinctr.bsky.social @stephenrodrick.bsky.social and a new film about the Renaud brothers.
niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/06/b...
If you've tried logging into a news site recently, there's a good chance you were asked to check your email for a passcode or "magic link" instead of entering a password.
🔗: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/why-magic-links-...
Annotation: The journalist, podcaster, and biographer shares tips on writing scenes you can’t witness firsthand, and getting in the head of characters no longer around to interview
Journalist killings reached a record high in 2025 — the deadliest year since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. Israel was responsible for two in three of these killings, driving the total number to 129 killed last year.
Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
Opinion: On the ground in Minnesota, where journalists are working to tell the truth about government-sanctioned violence and spin
Alternative media startups see themselves as a bulwark against billionaires and the far right. Can they survive?
🎧 @niemanstoryboard.org podcast: The author of ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write’ knew that her book about The Village Voice needed to be an oral history. She soon learned the storytelling challenges that came with it
🏆 Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard (@niemanfoundation.bsky.social) have announced the 2026 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, honoring outstanding works of American nonfiction in progress and in print.
The 2026 Nieman Fellows have chosen Gaza-based Palestinian journalists Shrouq Aila and @npr.org’s Anas Baba with the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism for reporting that documents the human consequences of war with accuracy and care. nieman.harvard.edu/the-2026-nie...
As artificial intelligence moves into newsrooms, four Nieman Fellows weigh in on the technology’s promise, limits, and risks.
🔗: niemanreports.org/ai-research-risks-journa...
CPJ condemned the 20-year prison sentence handed down to publisher Jimmy Lai, the founder of now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.
“The rule of law has been completely shattered in Hong Kong,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg.
Read more:
A new book by journalist Danny Funt, Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, tracks the legalization of sports betting.
🔗: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/sports-betting-r...
My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...
As artificial intelligence moves into newsrooms, four Nieman Fellows weigh in on the technology’s promise, limits, and risks.
🔗: niemanreports.org/ai-research-risks-journa...
