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Jonathan Seitz, Nieman Reports researcher/reporter, chronicles the fortunes of the “Santa Clara Hawk” To a first-time visitor, the statue of a hawk in front of the Nieman Foundation may seem…

Lois Fiore, hired in 1973 as assistant to curator James C. Thomson Jr., recalls the origins of the SoundingOne of the things we told the Fellows—and, I’m sure, still do—is…

Joshua Benton, NF ’08, recounts the origins of the Nieman Journalism LabBy the time I applied for a Nieman in 2007, the changes in America’s newsrooms were too real to…

Harvard president Conant suggested the Nieman gift be used to fund fellowshipsAt a dinner celebrating Louis M. Lyons’s 20th anniversary as curator in 1960, former Harvard president James B. Conant…

Seamus Heaney at home in Dublin, 1996. Photo by Bobbie Hanvey/Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston CollegeAfter his mother died in 1984, Seamus Heaney found solace in…

1954Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., a New York Times science writer who specialized in covering medical research, died of a heart attack in Hyannis, Massachusetts on April 1st. He was 89.…

The fictional “Tällberg Security Council” meets on the opening day of the 2013 Tällberg Forum. Photo by Hans WassaetherEvery year, leaders from the academic, business and philanthropic worlds gather in…

Photo by Finbarr O’ReillyComing to Harvard was a dream come true—but it was also the hardest thing I’ve ever done. For much of this year my husband and our two…

Read Anthony Lewis’s obituary in the New York Times.Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 25, 2013. He was 85. As a reporter for…

Photo by Stanley FormanStanley Forman, NF ’80, a former staff photographer for the Boston Herald American, is now a cameraman for WCVB News in Boston. This photograph, taken in 1977,…