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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

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, Patricia O'Brien

Harvard Meets the Press

From the Nieman Foundation's 50th Anniversary: A Personal Account of the Early Nieman Years
September 11, 2013
Louis M. Lyons
1989: The Hawk

1989: The Hawk

“Oh! The Maltese Falcon”
September 11, 2013
Jonathan Seitz
1974: Soundings

1974: Soundings

“What led you to where you are now?”
September 11, 2013
Lois Fiore
2008: Nieman Lab

2008: Nieman Lab

"Journalism innovation"
September 11, 2013
Joshua Benton

1939: The Curator

"You're a curator"
September 11, 2013
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…
September 11, 2013
Mike Pride

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.…
June 24, 2013

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…
June 24, 2013
Molly Bingham