Word: nieman
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...Angeles Times. "I think I would have waited for a day to see what Donna Rice had to say." The Sunday story, in fact, was printed before the Herald even learned Rice's name. But Howard Simons, former managing editor of the Washington Post and now head of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, defends the Herald's actions: "If they'd waited a day, they wouldn't have known anything more, except for a polished version after the people had got their stories together...
...Nieman Foundation has awarded the 1987 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to a jailed South African newspaper editor...
Zwelakhe Sisulu, 37, editor of the Johannesburg-based New Nation, was selected Wednesday by a vote of the 20 members of the Nieman Fellow Class...
...award, named in honor of former Nieman curator Louis M. Lyons, recognized Sisulu's courage and dedication in providing South African blacks with an alternative voice amid efforts by the South African government to stifle a dissenting press...
Albert L. May, chairman of the Nieman awards committee said that "Zwelakhe Sisulu is an activist and a leader in a struggle. His weapons are ideas and the printed word against an opponent who answers with force...