The Harvard Medal Project for Journalistic Independence

2013 Award

August 27, 2013

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Investigative journalist, author and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has been selected as winner of the 2013 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the award on Sept. 28, 2013, during the foundation’s 75th anniversary weekend in Cambridge, Mass.

Former Nieman Foundation curator Bill Kovach, chair of the advisory committee that oversees the annual award, said “Mayer is being recognized for her in-depth investigations of complex issues, the consistently high quality of her writing and her ability to maintain her reportorial independence at a large news organization.”… More