Articles Geneva Overholser, NF ’86 In 1991, The Des Moines Register’s series about a rape victim won a Pulitzer for Public Service. The subject of the series, Nancy Ziegenmeyer, decided to go public after reading… September 18, 2013 Geneva Overholser Lorie Hearn, NF ’95 To keep pace with the changing economics of newspapers, Hearn turned the San Diego Union-Tribune’s investigative unit she led into a nonprofit We obsessed over the future of journalism in… September 18, 2013 Lorie Hearn Gene Roberts, NF ’62 Roberts worked as a reporter in North Carolina before becoming the chief Southern and civil rights correspondent for The New York Times after his Nieman year. He is co-author of… September 18, 2013 Gene Roberts 1978: Lippmann House Click to view larger Kenneth Freed, NF ’78, remembers the refurbishment of Lippmann HouseWhen the Class of ’78 arrived in Cambridge, the conversion of what had been a decade-long derelict faux… September 18, 2013 Kenneth Freed Models of Great Coverage Though The New York Times lacks a beat reporter and covers the issue of mass incarceration sporadically at best, those three pieces by Tierney in early 2013 addressed two key… September 18, 2013 Dan Froomkin How to Keep Sources Secure from Surveillance In an encrypted Q&A with The New York Times Magazine, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden warned that journalists have been slow to properly respond to the threat of government… September 18, 2013 Dan Froomkin Ellen Goodman, Patricia O’Brien, NF ’74 Through her syndicated column, Goodman brought her feminist concerns to newspapers across the nation. O’Brien, a longtime political reporter, drew on her old beat when she started writing novels Until… September 12, 2013 Ellen Goodman 1989: The Hawk 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… September 11, 2013 Jonathan Seitz 1974: Soundings 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… September 11, 2013 Lois Fiore 2008: Nieman Lab 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… September 11, 2013 Joshua Benton Previous 1 … 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 … 432 Next
