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Celebrating 35 Years at Walter Lippmann House

Celebrating 35 Years at Walter Lippmann House

For its first 40 years, the Nieman Foundation was something of a nomad. It had been created in 1938 through money left to Harvard by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow…
Susan Glasser and Jill Abramson on Female Newsroom Leadership

Susan Glasser and Jill Abramson on Female Newsroom Leadership

Named editor of Politico last week, Susan Glasser spoke by phone with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson about the challenges faced by women in leadership roles. A…
10 Easy Ways to Save Journalism

10 Easy Ways to Save Journalism

Some months ago, The Economist ran a column about business schools. The tagline was: “Business schools are better at analyzing disruptive innovation than at dealing with it.”Sounds familiar, I thought.…
Where Are the Women?

Where Are the Women?

At a time when women head fewer major U.S. newspapers than they did 10 years ago, there is a place where women run not only some of the nation’s leading…
Plus ça change...

Plus ça change…

Of all the papers and newsmagazines in France, one in particular should have been well prepared for the challenges of this digital era: Libération. With its witty headlines, striking photo…

Ensuring Women Have A Seat at the Leadership Table

The lunch for the summer interns was held at the editor’s swanky men’s club. The other interns and I had arrived ahead of the brass and I took my seat…
Crusader and Mentor

Crusader and Mentor

John Seigenthaler, NF ’59, who died July 11 at age 86, was a throwback to the crusading newspaper editor of legend. During his 39 years at The (Nashville) Tennessean—as reporter,…
Anna Holmes

Anna Holmes

Related ArticleWhere Are the Women?Why we need more female newsroom leadersPLUSRead more stories from prominent female leadersThe gatekeepers, the managers, could do well to constantly push themselves to broaden their…
Making Us Believers

Making Us Believers

Margot Adler, NF ’82, a longtime correspondent for NPR, died of cancer at her home in New York on July 28. She was 68. Adler joined NPR in 1979 as…
“The Sense of Being Somewhere Else”

“The Sense of Being Somewhere Else”

Robert Drew, NF ’55, whose 1960 documentary about John F. Kennedy, “Primary,” is regarded as the start of American cinéma vérité, died July 30 at his home in Sharon, Connecticut.…