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1939: The Curator

1939: The Curator

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…

Keep Digging: Remembering Seamus Heaney

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…

Spring 2013: Class Notes

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 Future of Journalism in an Interdependent World

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…

Half a Revolution: The Future of Feminism is About Men

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…

Pulitzer Prize Winner Stanley Forman on Covering Fires in Boston from “the Other Side of the Tape”

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,…

The Legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winner Anthony Lewis, covering “a Dark and Ominous Time”

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…

Murrey Marder, Pathfinder

Murrey Marder, a former Washington Post reporter and founder of the Nieman Watchdog Project, died on March 11, 2013, at age 93. Former Nieman Curator Bill Kovach, NF ’89, reflects…

Grady Clay on the Future of Journalism and Cities: “No One Can Stay in the Center”

Grady Clay. Photo by John NationGrady Clay, NF ’49, an urban affairs specialist who was a reporter and editor for The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal and editor of Landscape Architecture Quarterly,…

Putting the Pieces Together: An E-Book Memoir of a Bus Accident in Israel

To be walking about a college campus with a knapsack on my back at age 39 was a great gift. It was all the greater for having had my first…