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Louis M. Lyons

Harvard Meets the Press

This piece was originally published in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports Louis Lyons, star reporter, pioneer newscaster, member of the first class of Nieman Fellows, and Curator of…
1939: Seminars

1939: Seminars

Writing in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports, Louis M. Lyons, NF ’39, explained the weekly seminar series added during his Nieman yearThe dinner guests [curator Archibald] MacLeish coaxed…
Edwin A. Lahey, NF ’39

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…

1947: A Free and Responsible Press

A Review of Free Press Report

1964: Calvin Coolidge and the Press

[This article originally appeared in the September 1964 issue of Nieman Reports.] The press conference as an organized biweekly meeting was instituted by Woodrow Wilson, fell into disrepair under Harding,…