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“Whatever it is you're here for, get on with it”

“Whatever it is you’re here for, get on with it”

I can’t tell you how my drawing class in the monastery on Memorial Drive or James Wood’s close reading of English novelist Henry Green or Diana Eck’s lecture on Gandhi…

Ying Chan, NF ’96

Founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, Chan has reported from New York for the Daily News and NBC News as well…
Pablo Corral Vega, NF ’11

Pablo Corral Vega, NF ’11

A photojournalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine, Vega is founder and director of www.nuestramirada.org, the largest network of Latin American photojournalists. He…

Fletcher P. Martin, NF ’47

The first black journalist to receive a Nieman Fellowship, Martin (1916–2005) was a World War II correspondent. As city editor of the Louisville Defender in the 1940s, he advocated for…

Fletcher P. Martin, NF ’47

The first black journalist to receive a Nieman Fellowship, Martin (1916–2005) was a World War II correspondent. As city editor of the Louisville Defender in the 1940s, he advocated for…

Margaret Engel, NF ’79

Executive director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Engel has reported for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register The setting was a Nieman seminar; the speaker one of Harvard’s…

Alice Bonner, NF ’78

Bonner was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a newsroom recruiter for Gannett, and has taught journalism at several universities My reporting career had barely begun when Bob…

Kabral Blay-Amihere, NF ’91

In Accra, Ghana, presidential election results are posted on a scoreboard. David Guttenfelder/Associated Press Having edited a number of publications in Ghana and led journalist organizations, Blay-Amihere is now chairman…
Kabral Blay-Amihere, NF ’91

Kabral Blay-Amihere, NF ’91

Having edited a number of publications in Ghana and led journalist organizations, Blay-Amihere is now chairman of the National Media Commission of Ghana My last job before arriving in Cambridge…
Robert C., NF ’66, and Dori Maynard, NF ’93

Robert C., NF ’66, and Dori Maynard, NF ’93

Following a career as a newspaper reporter, Dori Maynard took the helm of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Founded by her father (1937–1993), it has trained thousands…