75th Anniversary Mother of Invention As she lay dying, the widow of a Milwaukee newspaper editor made a gift that has now invigorated journalism for 75 years. Agnes Wahl Nieman, a well-educated woman with a… November 5, 2013 Maggie Jones The Meaning of the Nieman Lippmann House has opened its doors to the 76th Class of Nieman Fellows, and with them to the future of journalism. To the counterterrorism reporter studying the quantitative social sciences… November 1, 2013 Ann Marie Lipinski János Horvát, NF ’76 Having launched and operated a number of cable television channels in Hungary, Horvát was named the nation’s ambassador to Cuba in 2006 In 1975, Paul Ipper, the New York correspondent… October 7, 2013 János Horvát 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 Alexandra Garcia 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 Anne Hull 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 Robert A. Caro 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 Morton Mintz 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 Mary Ellen Leary 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 David Lewis 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 Ed Williams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
