From 2006 to 2014, Friedhoff ran a variety of programs at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, including Nieman’s Trauma Journalism Program and a specialized fellowship in Global Health Reporting. Friedhoff also created the online guide www.coveringflu.org. She teaches media literacy to victim advocates at the Massachusetts Victim Assistance Academy. Friedhoff spent ten years at German daily newspapers and magazines as a writer and editor before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1998, as a freelance journalist and science writer for U.S. and European media such as Time (U.S.), Suedeutsche Zeitung (Germany) and Folio/Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Switzerland). She was a 2001 Nieman Fellow.