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“A Distant Drum” brings the life of Nat Nakasa, NF ’65, to the stage

The story of Nathaniel Nakasa has all the makings of a classic tragedy. Nakasa, a talented black journalist from South Africa, was selected to be a Nieman Fellow in the…
Discovering His Voice

Discovering His Voice

Television reporter and anchor Norman Robinson retired in June, ending a 42-year career in journalism. He spent the past 23 years at WDSU in New Orleans, where he was anchor…
Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic (Complete Transcript)

Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic (Complete Transcript)

Atlantic editor Scott Stossel on keeping one of America’s oldest print magazines relevant

The State of News in Cuba

“Some people won’t like reading this,” warned Carlos Alberto Pérez, author of the blog “The Kite of Cuba,” in one of his entries published on May 15, 2014. The post…
Undercovering the Sources of Racial Conflict

Undercovering the Sources of Racial Conflict

Do today’s news media, legacy or digital, have what it takes to explore the underlying sources of racial conflict like the recent troubles in Ferguson, Missouri? There is plenty of…
5 Questions for Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory

5 Questions for Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory

Brian McGrory, who has been a White House correspondent, columnist, and a deputy managing editor during his 25 years at The Boston Globe, has been editor of the paper since…
Celebrating 35 Years at Walter Lippmann House

Celebrating 35 Years at Walter Lippmann House

For its first 40 years, the Nieman Foundation was something of a nomad. It had been created in 1938 through money left to Harvard by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow…
Susan Glasser and Jill Abramson on Female Newsroom Leadership

Susan Glasser and Jill Abramson on Female Newsroom Leadership

Named editor of Politico last week, Susan Glasser spoke by phone with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson about the challenges faced by women in leadership roles. A…
10 Easy Ways to Save Journalism

10 Easy Ways to Save Journalism

Some months ago, The Economist ran a column about business schools. The tagline was: “Business schools are better at analyzing disruptive innovation than at dealing with it.”Sounds familiar, I thought.…
Where Are the Women?

Where Are the Women?

At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation’s leading…