Articles

Katie King, NF ’94

In 1994, King launched Reuters’s first daily multimedia publication, “What on Earth,” a joint venture with cable TV company Tele-Communications, Inc. Twenty years ago when I started my Nieman year,…

Rosental Calmon Alves, NF ’88

Alves holds the Knight Chair in International Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He arrived in academia after more than a decade as a foreign correspondentI came to…
Jerome Aumente, NF ’68

Jerome Aumente, NF ’68

Founding director of the Journalism Resources Institute at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, Aumente trains journalists around the world I arrived at Harvard University in 1967, emotionally and…

H.Y. Sharada Prasad, ’56

Prasad (1924–2008), a longtime spokesman for Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv, was a news editor for The Indian Express in Bombay, India Our father spoke often of his Nieman…
Tim Giago, NF ’91

Tim Giago, NF ’91

Giago founded the Lakota Times (now Indian Country Today), the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the U.S. I first entered Walter Lippmann House filled with fear and anticipation.…
Robert Drew, NF ’55

Robert Drew, NF ’55

A pioneer of cinéma vérité, Drew in 1960 used portable sound and film equipment he helped develop to produce “Primary.” For that documentary, Drew was granted round-the-clock access to presidential…

Hong Qu, NF ’13

A member of the startup team that built YouTube, Qu uses his technical knowledge to develop tools for journalists My visiting Fellowship at the Nieman Foundation recalibrated my career. I…
Mike Pride, NF ’85

Mike Pride, NF ’85

For more than 30 years, Pride edited the Concord (N.H.) Monitor Zwelakhe Sisulu, my 1985 Nieman classmate, and curator Howard Simons changed my life. Zwelakhe, the South African in our…
Geneva Overholser, NF ’86

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…

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…