Articles

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

Half a Revolution: The Future of Feminism is About Men

Women have entered the world of men. Now men need to enter the world of women
June 13, 2013
Katrin Bennhold

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…
June 13, 2013
Allister Sparks

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,…
June 13, 2013
Stanley Forman

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…
June 13, 2013
Bill Kovach

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,…
June 13, 2013
Grady Clay

Grave New World: Evgeny Morozov’s Dire Warnings on the Reach of Google and Facebook

Photo by Paul Sakuma/The Associated Press To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological SolutionismBy Evgeny MorozovPublicAffairs415 pages Evgeny Morozov has a knack for connecting seemingly unrelated technological advances…
June 13, 2013
David L. Marcus

The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico

Alfredo Corchado, who has covered Mexico for the Dallas Morning News since 1994, was interviewed at Lippmann House. Video from the interview is available. What was it like coming to…
June 13, 2013
Alfredo Corchado

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…
June 13, 2013
Joshua Prager