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H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, NF ’86

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, NF ’86

Bissinger’s narrative nonfiction book “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream” inspired an acclaimed show that ran for five seasons on NBC People say, “Why’d you begin…
Philip Meyer, NF ’67

Philip Meyer, NF ’67

A reporter in the Washington bureau of the Knight newspapers, Meyer arrived at Harvard to learn how to apply social science research to reporting. The result: The invention of precision…
A.B. Guthrie Jr., NF ’45

A.B. Guthrie Jr., NF ’45

Guthrie (1901–1991), who spent 21 years at The Lexington (Ky.) Leader, called the Nieman Fellowship his “big break.” English professor Theodore Morrison helped him write the novel “The Way West,”…

Larry L. King, NF ’70

King (1929–2012) had a wide range, from “Confessions of a White Racist,” nominated for a National Book Award, to the Playboy article that inspired “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”…
Mary Schmich, NF ’96

Mary Schmich, NF ’96

A columnist at the Chicago Tribune since 1992, Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She writes about politics, the personal, and the culture of Chicago When I left…
Simeon Booker, NF ’51

Simeon Booker, NF ’51

Working for Jet magazine, Booker covered the civil rights movement for 53 years The Nieman program under Louis M. Lyons was eons ahead of the nation’s press when it came…
Howard Berkes, NF ’98

Howard Berkes, NF ’98

For the last 10 of his 30 years at NPR, Berkes has been a rural affairs correspondent. He also is a veteran Olympics reporter, careening downhill on a luge sled…
1972: Affiliates

1972: Affiliates

Ruth Daniloff, a ’74 Nieman affiliate, on the dawn of equal rights for affiliates When I heard in May of 1973 that my husband, Nicholas Daniloff, had won a Nieman…

Harvard Meets the Press

This piece was originally published in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports Louis Lyons, star reporter, pioneer newscaster, member of the first class of Nieman Fellows, and Curator of…
Taking Back Our Language

Taking Back Our Language

The shape and content of my decade as curator was determined by unexpected events. Howie Simons’s time as curator was cut drastically short by his death. The dissolution of the…