Author Things in Threes A ballpark, a boat, and a freezing, windswept ramp outside the old Boston Garden: things in threes, as the nuns used to say. I started my career as a reporter… October 2, 2013 The Faces of Agnes Wahl Nieman Jamie PooleFor the magazine’s cover, British artist Jamie Poole based his portrait of Agnes Wahl Nieman on one of only two known images of her—a small engraving from a collage… September 27, 2013 Anne Hull, NF ’95 Hull’s reporting on the abysmal treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center caught the attention of Congress and earned her and Washington Post colleague Dana Priest the 2008… September 27, 2013 Robert A. Caro, NF ’66 Caro’s interest in understanding Robert Moses took on a new urgency as he sat in an urban planning course at Harvard. The result was “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and… September 27, 2013 Morton Mintz, NF ’64 An investigative reporter for The Washington Post, Mintz broke the story of the birth defects associated with thalidomide I owe to Louis Lyons the marvelous experience of a Nieman year.… September 24, 2013 Mary Ellen Leary, NF ’46 One of the first two female Niemans, Leary (1913–2008) covered politics in California for half a century Learning in the Nieman environment was wider than the campus limits. But the… September 24, 2013 1945: Writing Courses Fiction instructor Anne Bernays and nonfiction instructor Paige Williams, NF ’97, recall how the Nieman writing courses got started in 1945 and 1998Signing on to teach crack journalists how to… September 24, 2013 Anthony, NF ’57, and David Lewis, NF ’94 David Lewis was the first CNN employee to receive a Nieman and has worked throughout the broadcast news business. His father, Anthony Lewis, who died in March of this year,… September 24, 2013 Ed Williams, NF ’73 After being hired for his first reporting job by W. Hodding Carter III, NF ’66, Williams spent 25 of his 35 years at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer as editor of… September 24, 2013 Sunday Dare, NF ’01 As editor of The News magazine during a brutal regime in the 1990s, Dare risked his life to report on corruption and other problems in Nigeria During my Nieman year,… September 24, 2013 Previous 1 … 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 … 429 Next
