Many NPF Alums on RRA Board
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The newly elected board of the Regional Reporters Association has a strong representation of NPF alums—nine to be exact. All eight selectees have graduated from NPF’s Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship in the past six years. Among them are President, Joseph Morton of Omaha World Herald (Paul Miller Fellow, 2006-2007), Vice President, Matt Canham of The Salt Lake Tribute (Paul Miller Fellow, 2008-2009) and Secretary, Bob Keefe of the Atlanta Journal Constitution (Paul Miller Fellow, 2009-2010). Other ‘Paul Millers’ elected to the board are: Herb Jackson, The Record, Bart Sullivan, Scripps Howard News Service, Bill Theobald, Gannett, Matt Laslo, freelance…
Helen Thomas’ Contributions to Journalism
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Helen Thomas, former “unofficial dean" of the White House Press Corps, has retired after disavowing controversial remarks she made about the state of Israel. View a video tribute for Helen’s lifetime of achievement from the 2001 NPF Annual Awards Dinner. She received that year’s Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism award. Read a full transcript of her remarks from the 2001 NPF Dinner. For a full list of past Kiplinger Awards honorees, click here.
NPF Award Winner Featured on C-SPAN’s Q&A
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Brody Mullins, investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, will be the guest on C-SPANS Q&A this weekend. NPF honored Brody at the 24thAnnual Awards Dinner with the Everett McKinley Dirksen Awards for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. The NPF Annual Awards Dinner recognizing journalistic achievement brings together more than 1,000 journalists, media, public relations and corporate executives, policy makers, and trade groups each year. See photos from the 2010 Awards Dinner here. Brody’s interview will air on June 6 at 8pm/11pm ET on C-SPAN. He will discuss his series of articles on aspects of official congressional travel. Q&A airs every…
Harvard Selects Journalist-2-Journalist Alumna for Nieman Fellowship
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The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 25 journalists from the U.S. and abroad for the prestigious Nieman Fellowship. Among the selected is a familiar name to NPF: Antigone Barton. Antigone was a Journalist-2-Journalist (J2J) fellow during our HIV/AIDS Media Trainings in Sydney, Australia (2007) and Mexico City, Mexico (2008). Click links to access full resources from the trainings. As part of the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows, Antigone will “study global health policy and research ways to build collaborative reporting and accessible resources in developing world news settings,” according to the Nieman Foundation press release. A full…
From NPF Fellow to Author: The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security
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Now in its 6th year, NPF’s program on retirement issues has provided training to nearly 100 journalists from around the US. Since 2005, selected fellows have traveled to Washington for an intense 4-day seminar led by experts on retirement. Mark Miller, a journalist, editor and now an author, was a 2008 Retirement Issues fellow. His book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work and Living, will be published in early June by Bloomberg Press. Mark wrote, “Participation in the NPF program provided critical background that helped me conceptualize the book!” Mark writes Retire Smart, a…
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