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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…