Author Harvard’s House of Blues Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King told Nieman Fellows about his hardscrabble beginnings and played for them one afternoon at Lippmann House back in the fall of 1980. That visit came… October 14, 2014 Bistra Lankova, NF ’80, 1944 – 1988 The story of B.B. King at Lippmann House would not be complete without more information about Bistra’s background: Bistra Lankova was a producer with the film department of Bulgarian National… October 14, 2014 5 Questions for Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is currently teaching narrative nonfiction at Harvard, where she received her undergraduate degree in 1976. She was an investigative reporter and deputy… October 6, 2014 The Writer, Chronicler of His Time In his 1975 lecture, “The Journalist, a Chronicler of His Time,” Alejo Carpentier, a writer and journalist himself, made a distinction between the perspectives and roles of these two professions… October 3, 2014 “A Distant Drum” brings the life of Nat Nakasa, NF ’65, to the stage The story of Nathaniel Nakasa has all the makings of a classic tragedy. Nakasa, a talented black journalist from South Africa, was selected to be a Nieman Fellow in the… October 1, 2014 Discovering His Voice Television reporter and anchor Norman Robinson retired in June, ending a 42-year career in journalism. He spent the past 23 years at WDSU in New Orleans, where he was anchor… September 30, 2014 Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic (Complete Transcript) Atlantic editor Scott Stossel on keeping one of America’s oldest print magazines relevant September 29, 2014 The State of News in Cuba “Some people won’t like reading this,” warned Carlos Alberto Pérez, author of the blog “The Kite of Cuba,” in one of his entries published on May 15, 2014. The post… September 26, 2014 Undercovering the Sources of Racial Conflict Do today’s news media, legacy or digital, have what it takes to explore the underlying sources of racial conflict like the recent troubles in Ferguson, Missouri? There is plenty of… September 25, 2014 5 Questions for Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory Brian McGrory, who has been a White House correspondent, columnist, and a deputy managing editor during his 25 years at The Boston Globe, has been editor of the paper since… September 24, 2014 Previous 1 … 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 … 429 Next
