<a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/saul-friedman-ex-newsday-columnist-dies-1.2574302">Saul Friedman</a>, a 1963 Nieman Fellow, was a White House correspondent for Newsday and Knight Ridder newspapers. During a journalism career that lasted more than five decades, Saul Friedman earned a reputation as a tough reporter who battled public officials and his editors with equal ferocity.