Author Harro Albrecht, NF ’07 A medical writer and editor for the German weekly Die Zeit, Albrecht was one of the Nieman Foundation’s first Global Health Fellows In 2007 I was in Gulu, in northern… September 19, 2013 James D. Squires, NF ’71 The former Chicago Tribune editor’s 1993 book “Read All About It!” raised an early alarm about the corporate takeover of U.S. newspapers Like many other young Southern journalists, my passion… September 18, 2013 Katherine Fulton, NF ’93 As president of Monitor Institute, Fulton works with business and government leaders to find new approaches to social and technological challenges Shortly after I arrived in Cambridge someone said to me:… September 18, 2013 Pekka Mykkänen, NF ’04 Mykkänen has been a reporter for Helsingin Sanomat since 1995 The story I tell most often is about Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, a former Finnish president who, as a spy… September 18, 2013 Harry S. Ashmore, NF ’42 As executive editor of The Arkansas Gazette, Ashmore (1916–1998) was a leading voice against segregation I remember going over to the President’s house. It was a very impressive thing for… September 18, 2013 Thomas Sancton, NF ’42 Sancton (1915–2012) wrote about the nascent civil rights movement in the 1940s The award of a Nieman Fellowship in 1941 was a turning point in my father’s life. It sent… September 18, 2013 Edwin A. Lahey, NF ’39 At the Chicago Daily News, Lahey (1902–1969) used what he learned at Harvard about accounting to investigate an Illinois state auditor; the official landed in prison The Nieman Fellow who… September 18, 2013 Jack Bass, NF ’66 As a journalist and history professor, Bass has sought to draw attention to the Orangeburg Massacre Jack Nelson, NF ’62, has written in his posthumously published memoir “Scoop” that professor… September 18, 2013 Laura Amico, NF ’13 Amico founded Homicide Watch D.C. to chronicle every murder committed in the nation’s capital I was nearing the end of my Fellowship year this spring when Wynton Marsalis played at Sanders Theatre.… September 18, 2013 Doug Marlette, NF ’81 Creator of the syndicated “Kudzu” comic strip, Marlette won a Pulitzer for editorial cartoons he drew for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution When Doug Marlette (1949–2007) returned… September 18, 2013 Previous 1 … 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 … 427 Next
